V Media interactive card slot?
 

hey,

I am new to this forum so please excuse mistakes! I was wondering; i had the old PACE box that was collected today and it had 2 card slots. One was for the card and one was an "Interactive Card Slot" What does this do? I heard that sky had loyalty cards but what about the V Media one??:confused:

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Was it not for servicing? I remember seeing the slot on the old box but can't remember it ever being used for anything. Unless it was a box used by other cable companies who had a use for it.

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It was never used on the Telewest/VM boxes.

:welcome: to the forum too :waving:

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:welcome:
I had an old pace box, I can remember the two slots, one for the viewing card, sorry, but I have no idea what the other was for.

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They have never been used the same as the Ethernet and USB ports.

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The Ethernet ports were used in some houses as the Cable Modem. Think this only happened in ntl: land though.

The 'interactive card' slot was for a payment system called Mondex. Mondex was a type of pre-pay debit card that you'd use to pay for services from interactive services (e.g. Dominos Pizza on Sky). It never actually happened though.

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Happened in ex:TW for a while too, but the STB cable modem provided limited speed (and in my experience wasn't as reliable as a CM) so the option was ditched when the never-ending speed increase battle began.

Also, Sky issued a credit card that was serviced by sticking it in the front of the Sky box - your statement was then displayed on screen (after dialling into Sky). Didn't last very long.

Was just an idea that didn't really catch on

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What is the USB slot for on the V+ box?

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Doesn't do anything useful as the software doesn't recognize anything plugged into it.

STB manufacturers just put them in the hardware in case a use is found later down the line. There are plenty of possible uses, just VM have not implemented any.

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Ok cheers.

Has the new VM TIVO box got a USB?

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It's got two. Neither do anything :)

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It has one use, it's always powered so great for charging USB devices.

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Maybe they will do something with them in the future.