scope:

This section sets forth the minimum requirements that a cable TV system shall meet in order to support baseline services provided to consumer-owned cable-compatible digital TV receivers and other cablecompatible consumer devices that comply with the requirements of Part II.

Baseline Services

The baseline services that may be provided are:

a) NTSC analog television signals that are transmitted in-the-clear.

b) Digital television programs that are transmitted in-the-clear.

c) Utilizing a Point-of-Deployment (POD) replaceable security module supplied by the cable TV system operator, those scrambled digital television programs that can be authorized by one-way downstream data transmission to the POD module. These include subscription television programs and pay-per-view programs that are separately ordered by telephone.

d) Event information data to support the navigation function in the receiver.

If these baseline services are provided, they shall be provided in accordance with Part I.