Why install a smart card in the TV?

The smart card for the TV allows you to use more features of modern digital television broadcasting. With its help, television equipment decodes encrypted channels. How does a SMART card work and is it easy to install it yourself?

What is a smart card

This is a regular plastic card with electronic chip and ID subscriber (individual user number). It allows you to view additional TV channels, not only in good resolution with high-quality picture, but also with excellent sound.

The individual subscriber number provides the provider the ability to control access. Thanks to this, the card holder can turn on and off additional broadcasting channels on contacting the company's office.Also, if the account has run out of funds, the operator may limit access to the services.

Benefits of using

The connection of such additional equipment allows the maximum use of the possibility of comfortable receiving information from the TV screen. Thanks to the acquisition and installation of SMART-cards of well-known providers (MTS, NTV +, Dom.ru, Tricolor TV), the user:

• enjoying high-quality digital broadcasting with increased clarityless sensitive to noise and distortion with improved picture and sound;
• he chooses a list of pay channels he needs;
• has the ability to easily connect and disconnect paid channels;
• gets text version of the TV program programs on your screen (depending on the provider and the capabilities of the TV model).

For example, this service is used by subscribers whose digital TV provider is MTS.

How to install a smart card

This card is installed either in the slot on the panel of the TV itself. with help CAM moduleor to a special receiver - as a rule, this is a service provider’s TV set top box, for example, Tricolor. Before you purchase a smart card and CAM module, you need to make sure that the TV model allows the installation of such equipment. For example, modern LCD LCD TV models Samsung and Lg have a slot for connecting a digital card through the CAM-module on the rear panel.

Consider the step-by-step connection algorithm.

1. Before installing the equipment, you must turn off the TV.
2. First of all, the card is installed in the CAM module. Both are provided by the provider (MTS, NTV +, Dom.ru, Tricolor TV). The module into which the SMART card is inserted is not custom equipment, it serves as a kind of adapter. When installing an electronic chip on a plastic card, it should be located at the front wall of the module (as a rule, on this side any pattern is depicted, for example the logo of the service provider).
3. After that, the cartridge with the card inserted into it is inserted into the corresponding slot. In this case, the connectors on the installed equipment and the input of the CI / PCMCIA must match. It should be noted that most of the modern models of Samsung and LJ TVs have short plug under CAM module. After installation, the cartridge is visible more than half. Therefore, the installation should not try to insert it further.
4. If the module with the SMART card is installed correctly, after switching on the TV, the corresponding entry will appear on the screen.

Most often, after the installation of such equipment, it is required to manually set up digital broadcasting television programs, for example, from the MTS or Dom.ru provider. Different TVs have this process in their own way, so you should know how to properly set up digital channels on a Samsung TV, LG, Philips.

Where to install the SMART card if the TV does not have the appropriate connector

In case the TV does not have a CI / PCMCIA connector for the CAM module, the user needs to be able to connect the digital broadcasting buy a TV set-top box (receiver).  Choose this device easy: on the market today a large range of devices that meet any requirements. WITH connecting the console also there should be no problems. When connecting, some providers, such as MTS, set their own set-top boxes to subscribers, including payment for using it in a monthly payment, or providing it free of charge (as a rule, during the period of the company's shares). The installation of a smart card and a CAM module in the receiver is made in the same way as connecting through the connector on the TV panel.

Thus, virtually anyone can connect to digital broadcasting at home, regardless of the TV model. A smart card that allows you to manage premium channels with enhanced clarity (HDTV) can be installed directly into the TV itself, through CI / PCMCIA connector and TV set-top box.

In the second case, the user will have to control the channels using two remote controls or buy and configure universal remote control.