CEA and member companies lobbied the FCC to okay CEA’s petition to...
CEA and member companies lobbied the FCC to okay CEA’s petition to redo some Internet Protocol captioning rules. That’s so DVD and other removable media players need not caption broadcast and pay-TV content when sent in IP, and other consumer…
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electronics that must comply with the rules don’t need to unless made starting Jan. 1, 2014 (CD June 7 p15). “CEA’s members need certainty in the near future as they design products affected by issues raised in the” group’s petition for reconsideration of the agency’s IP captioning order, the group said in a filing (http://xrl.us/bnq86e). Friday’s ex parte disclosure in docket 11-154 reported on a meeting with FCC General Counsel Sean Lev and others in his office as well as Media Bureau staff attended by CEA, Panasonic and Sony executives. “Apparatus closed captioning rules” should only cover “devices intended by the manufacturer to receive, play back, or record video programming, rather than broadly applying them to any device with a video player,” the filing said.