Thread Subject: Re: $a, 4B harmonization

From: Larry Goldberg
Date: Wed, Nov 07 2007 2:20 PM

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Not today on the phone, but yes online. Any suggestions as to how to
approach this discussion?

- Larry

Sent from my iPhone

On Nov 7, 2007, at 2:10 PM, Andrew Kirkpatrick < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = >
wrote:

> 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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