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I have a TV that has a Common Interface slot. I am wondering if I can get Sky Sports with a card or do I need to purchase some sort of box?

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Samsung 7 Series Online-Anleitung: Connecting To A Common Interface Slot (Your Tv Viewing Card Slot). Turn The Tv Off To Connect Or Disconnect A Ci Card Or Ci Card Adapter. Attaching The Ci Card Adapter - A Ci Card Adapter That Lets The Tv Use Two Different Ci Cards Is Available.
The presence of such a slot in the TV gives you the ability to use the interface as a replacement for a traditional receiver. Therefore, these systems are sometimes called the DVB Common Interface, i.e. A slot that supports a particular format of interaction with the integrated tuner.
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Our Answer

Most new TV sets come with a CI (Common Interface) slot. These require what’s known as a CAM (Conditional Access Module) to work. A CAM accepts a TV subscription card.

Here’s a picture of a CAM being slid into a TV set’s CI slot:

With a subscription card inserted into a CAM, that’s then inserted into a TV set, you are able to watch encrypted TV channels.

At time of writing, TV sets with a CI Slot can only be used to decode one TV channel, and that’s ESPN, the sports channel.

How do I get ESPN?

If you want to use your TV set’s CI socket for ESPN, you can get a viewing card and a CAM from Top Up TV.

What about Sky Sports?

At the moment, you can’t get Sky Sports 1 or Sky Sports 2 using a CI slot, CAM and subscription card. This is because Sky does not believe that the Cam/ CI technology is secure enough, and accordingly, for Sky Sports, you’ll need a set-top box.

That having been said, at the end of 2010, the UK regulator OfCom upheld a complaint from Top Up TV, and it looks like Sky will be required to support a CAM in the future. It’s expected that older CI slots may not work though, and you’d need a TV that has a CI+ slot. At the time of writing, it’s still not possible to use a CI slot for Sky Sports, and we’ll update this article as soon as a solution is offered.

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