CEA and three member companies lobbied the FCC to stick to a...
CEA and three member companies lobbied the FCC to stick to a rulemaking notice’s proposal to limit emergency programming video description rules to devices that show broadcast- and pay-TV programming and not also include Internet Protocol video. Groups representing those…
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with hearing and vision problems had sought IP rules (http://xrl.us/bn9xna), in replies in docket 12-107 (CD Jan 9 p7), where CEA’s ex parte filing was posted Thursday. The 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act didn’t “extend” the emergency information and video description provisions to IP-delivered video, executives of CEA, Panasonic, Samsung and Sony told Consumer & Governmental Affairs and Media bureau officials implementing the act. Don’t include “'video players’ installed by manufacturers as a defining characteristic of ‘apparatus'” covered by Section 203 of the act, “because the statute limits such apparatus to a subset of video players -- those designed to receive or play back ‘video programming,'” the filing said (http://xrl.us/bocbex). Deaf groups also recently lobbied some of the same bureau staff on the emergency information accessibility issue (CD Jan 25 p13).