CEA and members lobbied the FCC for approval of a...
CEA and members lobbied the FCC for approval of a waiver (CD March 27 p4) the association requested last week of disabilities accessibility rules for Internet Protocol-enabled digital video players (DVP) and TVs made before July 1, 2016. Executives of…
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the group, Panasonic, Samsung and Sony told Consumer & Governmental Affairs Bureau staffers of how those devices’ primary purpose isn’t advanced communications services, and so those products should be exempt. The agency should “find that the date first manufactured is equivalent to the date ‘introduced into the market'” for the waiver, a handout from the meeting said. “This clarification will provide greater certainty to manufacturers of IP-TVs and IP-DVPs as they determine when and for which models the requested waiver would apply.” A copy of the meeting handout was posted with the CEA’s ex parte filing Monday in docket 10-213 (http://xrl.us/bmzmeh).