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30-12-10, 15:47
Top Up TV is planning to offer Sky Sports on digital terrestrial using a CAM instead of a set-top box with built-in conditional access.
Viewers with suitable TVs or set-top boxes will be able to buy a Nagravision CAM and insert a viewing card, instead of completely new equipment.
However, the CAM will only be compatible with the new CI+ Common Interface, and not the CI slots found on all UK digital TVs.
Ofcom has ordered Sky to allow CAM decoding of Sky Sports 1 and Sky Sports 2 as part opf its ongoing drive to open up the UK's market for premium pay-TV channels.
Top-Up TV will be the first to offer boxes with CI+ for terrestrial digital TV, and chairman David Chance told Broadband TV News: 'We hope that we can get on with offering customers great value sports subscriptions with Freeview channels and simple "plug and play" equipment.'
The CI+ standard offers greater security for broadcasters, and allows them to add their own user interface for viewers watching decrypted channels.
Wotsat understands that Samsung will include CI+ on its forthcoming Freesat box.
This opens the possibility of receiving Sky Sports 1 and 2 via satellite without an official Sky box, including Real Digital promised to launch in January 2011.
Viewers with suitable TVs or set-top boxes will be able to buy a Nagravision CAM and insert a viewing card, instead of completely new equipment.
However, the CAM will only be compatible with the new CI+ Common Interface, and not the CI slots found on all UK digital TVs.
Ofcom has ordered Sky to allow CAM decoding of Sky Sports 1 and Sky Sports 2 as part opf its ongoing drive to open up the UK's market for premium pay-TV channels.
Top-Up TV will be the first to offer boxes with CI+ for terrestrial digital TV, and chairman David Chance told Broadband TV News: 'We hope that we can get on with offering customers great value sports subscriptions with Freeview channels and simple "plug and play" equipment.'
The CI+ standard offers greater security for broadcasters, and allows them to add their own user interface for viewers watching decrypted channels.
Wotsat understands that Samsung will include CI+ on its forthcoming Freesat box.
This opens the possibility of receiving Sky Sports 1 and 2 via satellite without an official Sky box, including Real Digital promised to launch in January 2011.