Thread Subject: Re: $a, 4B harmonization

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From: Tom Brett
Date: Wed, Nov 07 2007 1:00 PM

Is there a meeting today? Caption wasn't reserved.

Tom Brett


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto: = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = ] On Behalf Of Andrew
Kirkpatrick
Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2007 2:11 PM
To: TEITAC Audio/Video Subcommittee
Cc: Mike Paciello
Subject: Re: [teitac-video] $a, 4B harmonization

Larry,
Something about your message reminds me that we need to cover the
economic impact for the section 4 and section 6 items today... :)
AWK

> -----Original Message-----
> From: = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED =
> [mailto: = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = ] On Behalf Of
> Larry Goldberg
> Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2007 1:37 PM
> To: TEITAC AV list
> Cc: Mike Paciello
> Subject: [teitac-video] $a, 4B harmonization
>
> Here is my attempt to align the 4-A - Caption Playback
> provisions with the 4-B - Supplemental Audio Playback
> provisions. Both appended below.
>
> Can the chairs deposit this in the Sandbox?
>
> ... Larry ...
>
> 4-A - Caption Playback
> Analog television, digital television and tuners, computer
> equipment, and other products must provide support for closed
> and open captions:
> 1. Products that are governed by U.S. Federal Communications
> Commission
> (FCC) regulations 47 CFR 15.119 (Closed caption decoder
> requirements for analog television receivers) and 47 CFR
> 15.122 (Closed caption decoder requirements for digital
> television receivers and converter boxes) must provide
> support for TV closed captions and open captions.
> Such equipment must either pass TV caption data to the
> caption decoding circuitry of analog and 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 products 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.
>
> 4-B - Supplemental Audio Playback
> Television tuners, including tuner cards for use in
> computers, must support video description playback:
> 1. Analog-signal tuners must be equipped with Secondary Audio
> Program (SAP) playback circuitry as defined by the
> Multichannel Television Sound standard developed by the
> Broadcast Television Systems Committee (BTSC) in 1984.
> 2. Digital-signal tuners must be equipped with ancillary
> audio program playback circuitry according to the A/53
> standard developed by the Advanced Television Systems
> Committee (ATSC), major elements of which were adopted by the
> FCC in December of 1996.
>
>
>

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