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Anyone know what the C.I. port does?

briskem (Mostly Harmless) posted this on Tuesday, 19th January 2010, 11:24

Anyone know what the C.I. port does? or even whats it for! its on the side of my Technika tv/dvd combo ,thanks for any help .

RE: Anyone know what the C.I. port does?

Mister Smee (Elite) posted this on Tuesday, 19th January 2010, 11:29

It`s so you can plug in a card for TopUpTV or whatever the equivalent that is available these days for watching pay TV via Freeview.

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RE: Anyone know what the C.I. port does?

Chris Gould (Elite) posted this on Tuesday, 19th January 2010, 11:36

It`s used for Pay-to-View TV and it stands for Common Interface.

RE: Anyone know what the C.I. port does?

Chris Muriel (Competent) posted this on Tuesday, 19th January 2010, 16:43

The CI (Common Interface) port is electrically/mechanically similar to a PC PCMCIA port and will accept CAMs (Conditional Access Modules) that are CI compatible.
There have also been some cases (pretty rare though) where a particular manufacturer has supplied a TV software upgrade via a specially loaded CAM.
For most people the CI slot is of no use whatsoever.

Chris Muriel, Manchester

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