Thread Subject: Re: Meeting notes from Septembver 28, 2007

From: Andrew Kirkpatrick
Date: Fri, Sep 28 2007 3:05 PM

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If we need to reference the FCC rule, this is the one that Robert Blanchard cited in an earlier post:

47 CFR 15.122 (Closed caption decoder requirements for digital television receivers and converter boxes)

AWK

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> Sent: Friday, September 28, 2007 4:48 PM
> To: TEITAC Audio/Video Subcommittee
> Subject: [teitac-video] Meeting notes from Septembver 28, 2007
>
> Audio Video Subcommittee Meeting
> September 28, 2007
> Transcript attached.
>
> Very productive meeting today. Discussion time was spent
> mostly discussing a proposal to address captioning in Section
> 4 and two new definitions that would be needed as a result.
>
> Details:
>
> ***
> I. The group came to consensus on the proposal for 4-A
> (Caption Playback). The proposed text is:
> ***
>
> Analog television, digital television and tuners, computer
> equipment, and other products must provide support for closed
> and open captions:
> 1. Products that fall under the regulation of the U.S.
> Federal Communications Commission (FCC) must provide support
> for TV closed captions and open captions.
>
> Such equipment must either pass TV caption data to the
> caption decoding circuitry of DTV displays for decoding as
> displayed text, or decode TV caption data and pass on a
> decoded ("open-captioned") video signal to the display.
>
> 2. Products that do not fall under the regulation of the U.S.
> Federal Communications Commission (FCC), including personal
> video display devices and software players must provide
> support for a functional equivalent to TV closed captions.
>
> Such equipment must either pass TV caption data to the
> caption decoding circuitry of DTV displays for decoding as
> displayed text or decode a functional equivalent to TV closed
> captions and pass on a decoded ("open-captioned") video
> signal to the display.
>
> This was agreed to with the caveat:
> A) we need to modify the language of the second part of the
> 4-A.2 section starting "Such equipment must either pass..."
> to indicate what is being passed on
>
>
> ***
> II. The subcommittee needs to clarify the text in the two
> definitions that would be needed due to being referenced
> <<796435.html>> by the new 4-A text:
> ***
>
> TV closed captions:
> Captions encoded using CEA 608 format and delivered in analog
> television signals, or Captions encoded in CEA 708, carried
> in digital TV signals to players that meet the U.S. Federal
> Communications Commission (FCC) caption playback requirements
> [do we need a specific reference to the FCC standard? Suspect so...].
>
> Functional equivalent to TV closed captions:
> Encoding of features equivalent to CEA 708 and display of
> caption text must comply with §3-B (contrast), 3-E (Color
> Adjustment), and 1.2-I (text size) directly or through
> assistive technology in order to provide a functional
> equivalent of the FCC primary user-controllable features.
> -- reference opacity, and white on black or black on white [3-B]
>
>
> ***
> III. Discussion of caption controls on remotes will occur
> next meeting. Robert Blanchard will post a request for a
> specific annotation of requirements to the AV list.
> ***
>
> The next meeting will be scheduled by the AV chairs
>
>
> Thanks,
> AWK
>

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