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

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From: Larry Goldberg
Date: Mon, Oct 01 2007 8:00 AM

Looks like it was a very useful, very productive meeting.
Sorry I wasn't able to join you, got trapped in another meeting that went
long.
But in light of this progress, perhaps I should miss more meetings!

To keep the momentum going, how about a meeting at our former usual time:
Wednesday, Oct. 3, 3-4:30pm?

Tom, Bruce - can we book FRCC for this meeting at the same call-in number as
always?

Thanks.

... Larry ...


Andrew Kirkpatrick wrote:

> 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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