Samsung SP-R4232 Owner's Instructions Manual

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CableCARD and Digital Cable Ready TVs4CableCARD and Digital Cable Ready TVs are the products of a new digital cable standard.This new standard is called OpenCable and it is a concerted effort to standardize the digital cableservice network interface in North America. For more information, please refer to www.cablelabs.com.Digital Cable Ready TVs are equipped with a proper digital cable tuner to receive digital cable signalsfrom your local cable service provider. They are also designed to work with digital CableCARDmodules (PCMCIA card modules called CableCARDs). These PCMCIA card modules or CableCARDswill be provided by your local cable service provider after a proper subscription process.The provided CableCARD from your local cable service provider needs to be inserted into theCableCARD slot of a Digital Cable Ready TV. Please refer to page 25 for how to insert theCableCARD.A digital set-top box which used to be provided by the cable service provider is no longer neededwith Digital Cable Ready TVs and CableCARDs.When the CableCARD is inserted into the slot, the TV screen will show a message that CableCARDis inserted and necessary data such as channel information or subscription information will bedownloaded from your digital cable service provider. When you insert CableCARD for the first time,this process may take few minutes depending on the amount of data your cable provider needs to send.During this process, the digital cable service provider or CableCARD may display messageson the TV screen to help or give you further information.Please contact your local cable provider for more information on service availability and how toacquire a CableCARD.Notes• This television receiver supports the copy protection system regulated by DTLA (Digital TransmissionLicensing Administrator). It should be noted that copy protected content may not be viewabledepending on your particular connections.• Some channels may be scrambled depending on your cable service provider.When you tune to these channels, no screen or a still screen may appear. In order to view thescreen properly, you have to go through a subscription process after contacting your serviceprovider. It will take several minutes to update the channel information depending on your cableservice provider.