Editing CableCARD (section)

==Adoption==
There was much resistance from cable operators to the CableCARD rollout across the United States, preferring to support their own set-top boxes.{{Citation needed|date=January 2017}} The adoption proceeded slowly with 141,000 units by February 2006. The resistance softened somewhat with the July 2007 FCC ban on integrated security in set-top boxes, which required all new set-top boxes to use CableCARDs as their decryption mechanism. By June 2009, the top 10 "incumbent" U.S. cable operators had deployed more than 14 million operator-supplied set-tops with CableCARDs and 437,800 CableCARD modules for use in retail devices.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=178653|title=CableCARD - Light Reading|website=lightreading.com|access-date=11 April 2018}}</ref> The [[National Cable Television Association]] reported in April 2016 that only 621,400 CableCARDs were deployed for use in retail devices by the nine largest incumbent cable operators, compared to 55 million operator-supplied set-top boxes with CableCARDs.<ref>{{cite web|author1=National Cable & Telecommunications Association|title=Re: CS Docket No. 97-80 (Commercial Availability of Navigation Devices)|url=http://apps.fcc.gov/ecfs/document/view?id=60001707436|website=FCC.gov|date=27 April 2016|access-date=26 January 2017|archive-date=14 March 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200314160544/https://ecfsapi.fcc.gov/file/60001707436.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>
This indicates that the CableCARD failed to achieve the goal of a competitive retail market for set-top boxes.<ref>{{Cite web|last1=Silbey|first1=Mari|title=Obama Signs CableCARD Death Warrant|url=https://www.lightreading.com/cable-video/set-top-boxes/obama-signs-cablecard-death-warrant/d/d-id/712444|access-date=2021-07-31|website=Light Reading|language=en}}</ref>

Outside the United States, CableCARDs were adopted only in South Korea, in pair with [[Nagravision]] and [[VideoGuard]] [[conditional access]] (CA) systems.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.smardtv.com/index.php/products/for-television-and-set-top-boxes/cablecard|title=Products - CableCARD|access-date=2021-11-26|website=SmarDTV S.A. ([[Kudelski Group]])|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120424132857/http://www.smardtv.com/index.php/products/for-television-and-set-top-boxes/cablecard|archive-date=2012-04-24|language=en}}</ref> U.S. adoptions of CableCARD were mostly paired with [[Cisco Systems|Cisco's]] ''PowerKEY'' (originally developed by [[Scientific Atlanta]]) and [[Motorola]]'s (now [[Arris International|Arris]]) ''MediaCipher'' CA systems.