Rapid FCC adoption of a cable-CE plug-and-play interoperability a...
Rapid FCC adoption of a cable-CE plug-and-play interoperability agreement is necessary to “enable manufacturers to realize efficiencies deriving from commonalities between designing and producing cable-ready DTV receivers” and meeting the Commission’s July 1, 2004, deadline for incorporating ATSC tuners…
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in half of all larger- screen TVs, Thomson said in an ex parte filing at the FCC. Thomson representatives, meeting May 19 with the staff of the FCC’s Media Bureau, emphasized the importance of “avoiding the unfortunate consequence of the Commission’s missing an 18-month product cycle” while consideration of plug-and-play agreement is still pending, the filing said. Ensuring the ability of consumers to walk into a retail outlet and be assured that the DTV set they want to buy is truly “cable- ready” is “perhaps the single most important near-term achievement the Commission could accomplish to accelerate the DTV transition,” Thomson said.