Comcast begins to sunset CableCard
By Daniel Frankel
NextTV
August 27, 2024
Cable giant will stop providing the video security devices on October 24
Comcast has begun notifying customers via their billing statements that starting October 24, it will no longer be issuing CableCARD security modules.
Comcast told LightReading that it will provide affected customers with a free year's usage of a streaming device and guide them to use the Xfinity app. It will also continue to support existing CableCards after October 24.
Also read: Charter to Cut Off CableCARD Support
The move comes a little more than two years after ended support for the device, and four years following the end of the FCC's requirement of its usage.
Creation of the CableCARD was mandated as part of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 and designed to force cable operators to provide their customers a choice of using third-party set-tops.
The module was developed to allow third-party devices sold at retail to be used in the cable TV ecosystem. However, only a handful of gadgets in the market today still support CableCARD.
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Aww. That means that combined with the impending "Time Warp" bug my SA Power Key card will stop working sometime in November when it's internal clock rolls over and can no longer sync, and that'll be the end of WMC for me.
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