DirecTV reported making “ongoing efforts in cooperation with third-party hardware and...
DirecTV reported making “ongoing efforts in cooperation with third-party hardware and software companies to develop the capabilities necessary to comply with the ‘rendering’ requirements for closed captioning of video delivered via Internet protocol” under the FCC IP captioning order. “Challenges”…
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remain in “achieving compliance” for some platforms by the Sept. 30 deadline, an executive told front-office Media Bureau officials, “especially given that not all platforms will accept captioning information delivered using the safe-harbor SMPTE-TT protocol,” the company said in a filing posted Thursday to docket 11-154 (http://xrl.us/bne62b). DirecTV and other pay-TV and consumer electronics interests have supported a petition by the Digital Media Association to delay the IP captioning rendering deadline until Jan. 1, 2014 (CD June 7 p18).