CEA again asked the FCC to change some rules under the 21st Century...
CEA again asked the FCC to change some rules under the 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act so only “video programming players” face Internet Protocol closed captioning requirements instead of all “video player” devices. The association’s “concerns are not…
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limited to narrow classes of camcorders and digital still cameras,” which are “types of consumer electronics equipment [that] are merely examples of the ill effects of the IP Captioning Order’s approach,” a filing said (http://xrl.us/bn3v5t). Digital devices including video baby monitors, security cameras, binoculars and microscopes are among “devices that may be technically capable of playing back ‘video programming’ but are not designed to do so,” CEA Vice President of Regulatory Affairs Julie Kearney wrote. “The Commission cannot properly cure the overbreadth of its current rule by specifically designating the examples identified here as exempt, and it should not be tempted to do so.” The filing posted Tuesday to docket 11-154 is on the association’s April request for the FCC to redo part of this year’s IP captioning order (CD Sept 25 p16).