Sony isn’t barrier to DTV transition but believes it has been amo...
Sony isn’t barrier to DTV transition but believes it has been among its “stronger proponents and advocates,” said Sony spokesman responding to allegations by John Lawson, pres. of Assn. of Public TV Stations, that Sony was potential “barrier” to…
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delivery of over-air DTV reception to consumers if it didn’t drop opposition to FCC’s DTV tuner mandate (CD Aug 21 p4). Without DTV content and distribution through cable and satellite compatibility, Sony spokesman said, “the majority of consumers would not be able to receive HDTV service or get the benefit of their ATSC television.” Like FCC, Sony is committed to “the quick acceptance and usage of high-definition DTV” by consumers. But he said company believes “the only true measure of success” in DTV transition is achieving cable and satellite compatibility, without which risks development of “an over-the-air market segmentation situation” that would benefit neither broadcasters nor consumers. Spokesman said Sony looks forward “to the FCC addressing -- as it said it would -- the key issues of cable compatibility and must-carry, which we think are very, very important.”