An online video and audio industry association wants an FCC delay...
An online video and audio industry association wants an FCC delay of 16 months until Jan. 1, 2014, of enforcement of some rules for video programming distributors (VPDs) captioning broadcast TV and cable video transmitted by Internet Protocol. “These requirements…
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concern only configuration settings such as the ability to customize caption background, color, opacity, and font, but not the core requirement to ensure that consumers receive captioned video content,” a Digital Media Association (DiMA) petition last week said. The “narrow, time-limited waiver request” will “still ensure that consumers receive captioned video content in the timeframe set by the Commission,” DiMA said. Some VPDs the association represents “simply cannot overcome the significant technical challenges” in the “mere six months” the IP captioning order allowed, DiMA said (http://xrl.us/bm69ef). Another petition also in docket 11-154 (http://xrl.us/bm69eh) sought a delay also to Jan. 1, 2014, for VPDs that don’t provide captions to begin rendering them. The petition said DiMA member Google didn’t join either request, while Apple sat out the rendering petition. “The challenge facing VPDs that have never offered closed captioning is at least as great as the challenge facing apparatus makers, and yet” the agency gave the manufacturers two years for their products to comply, the association said. CEA is among three others that have asked the commission to revisit the IP captioning rules (CD May 3 p12).