Do cable channels know what show you are watching?
Individual cable channels don’t know whose watching because it isn’t the cable channel that broadcasts the show to your home. Cable channels rely on a cable network to distribute their content.Now, here is gets complex: if the cable TV receiver has a modem in it then the cable network could get data about viewership (if it wanted to), but many cable TV boxes are actually dumb and don’t have a modem in them. It costs money to put a modem in the cable TV box and so quite a bit of the time companies don’t bother.But with increasingly complex demands by customers for interactive services and on-demand players newer boxes are tending to come with modems. So if your set-top box has applications like Netflix, Hulu or other catch-up services then it has a modem, if it can only be used for watching live TV then it probably doesn’t. If you are watching cable TV without a set-top box, just using a cablecard or DTA, then it doesn’t have a modem.Here’s the thing: it is valuable to know what people are watching, but the value isn’t as great as you might imagine. Most broadcast TV depends on estimates for viewership, such as those provided by Nielsen ratings. Direct measurement of boxes is useful but, as Joe Belkin mentions, even if you know the box is tuned you don’t know if anyone is watching and that is what Nielsen asks viewers.Also, for those who are paranoid about being spied upon, speaking as someone who has had access to vast quantities of viewing data: we don’t care what you do. Individuals are statistically insignificant and mostly boring, it is the dataset as a whole that is interesting. I did once freak my wife out by calling her at home on maternity leave and telling her to stop watching so many ‘true crimes’ shows. (I was intentionally looking at my own home box to study some behaviour I had noticed and thought it would be funny to tease my wife).
Can digital TV companies know what channel you are watching?
TV Companies cannot track the TV Channel you are watching. That in itself is impossible. Because a TV Company first broadcasts the live programming to a satellite which retransmits the show to our households. If for instance we use a set top box then the signal first goes to the company satellite say SKY Cable's satellite and then gets transmitted to our box. In this case however, using certain inbult technologies in the box these companies can track the channel you are watching. It's not the broadcasters you need to worry about but the box providers.
Do cable companies know what you are watching so they can automatically collect stats on what programs are most popular, or do they need to do surveys?
Linear broadcast channels are not possible to track. These are the most popular channels like “NBC”, “CBS”, etc. They are broadcast out to everyone meaning it’s one source in the the headend going out to all service groups/nodes.SDV/OD (Switched Digital Video/OnDemand) can be tracked easily.
Is there a way to watch American TV channels in the Philippines?
The cable operators have US based channels, along with other foreign owned programs among the offerings. CNN, ESPN, ETC, Disney, Discovery, CNBC, Australian, Japanese, German Korean, Indian, channels, STAR WORLD, Hallmark, HBO, Animax, MTV, etc etc.
Time Warner Cable Customers are losing their channels?
I was watching Spongebob this morning and all of the sudden scrolling writing appears on the screen. After reading it completely is said that Time Warner Cable customers and Bright Side Network Customers are going to lose 18 channels tonight. Some of the channels included Nick, MTV, VHI, Comedy Central, Spike, TV Land, etc, etc. It told us to call a number and demand they keep these channels. It seems a little fishy to me that I didn't hear about this before and all of the sudden they want us to call this number. Anyone one else in a similar boat or does anyone know what's going on?
Can cable/satellite TV companies track what you're watching?
There isn't really a standard mechanism for monitoring what people are watching, each cable company will use a different technique.For example in my company (we are IPTV not cable but there are some similarities) we can look at logging information that the box sends back which says what actions the box is performing. When it tunes to a particular channel that creates an event and the box reports that. Alternatively you can use the DRM or conditional access system to log activities. Whenever the box wants to decrypt pay TV channels it must as the security system and that system can report back (either in the general logs or via its own system). For a specific example: on our devices the box must fetch the entitlement to watch a channel from our servers. Cable boxes don't tend to fetch entitlements every time but they do have separate systems for managing entitlements and those can be measured.In terms of one standard mechanism that does exist. Many operators use a protocol called TR-069 with TR-135 extensions. This allows them to manage and monitor the status of the box. Otherwise many companies will sell you a proprietary solution for tracking.Finally, many boxes don't actually have a return path to send data back. In these circumstances the cable company will commission research, either from their own customer outreach teams or from an independent company like Nielsen. That team will then look at the demographic of customers, call a sample of them and ask what they watch. They may also ask households to keep a diary of what they watch or ask permission to install a monitoring device in their home. Sometimes customers are rewarded for providing such detailed information.
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Will my provider know im watching porn ?
We know you're watching porn. So will they. But hey they don't care as long as it is legal porn even if you are a six year old watching it. they only care if the porn you are watching involves little kids as they have to report that type of stuff.