Three makers of consumer electronics lobbied the FCC to redo Internet...
Three makers of consumer electronics lobbied the FCC to redo Internet Protocol captioning rules, so standalone, removable DVD players aren’t covered by the IP captioning order that CEA has petitioned the agency to reconsider. The order “requires current DVD and…
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Blu-ray Disc players to incorporate additional closed caption decoder circuitry, even though such players are not designed to play” back video programming transmitted simultaneously with sound, Hitachi, Panasonic and Sony executives told Consumer & Governmental Affairs and Media bureau staff working on implementing a 2010 disabilities law. “The capability to decode and render closed captions would require significant hardware changes to provide additional processing capability which lower-cost, stand-alone removable media players currently do not have, and would add increased cost to basic DVD and Blu-ray Disc players,” said an ex parte filing posted Monday in docket 11-154 (http://xrl.us/boc4rv). “DVD players are a mature technology, and all physical media players ... face increasing competition from online streaming and pay-per-view services.” The three CEA members said that if the association’s request isn’t granted, “numerous manufacturers would have to reconsider whether to continue marketing such low-cost removable media products” in the U.S. The group and several members also recently met with some of the same commission staff to ask the agency exclude some video players from emergency accessibility rules (CD Jan 28 p22).