NAB and MSTV agree with Motorola that speeding the remaining DTV ...
NAB and MSTV agree with Motorola that speeding the remaining DTV tuner mandate deadline to “a couple of months” before the end of 2006 would have a far more “positive effect” than setting the deadline at Dec. 31, 2006,…
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as the FCC urges, the broadcast groups told the Commission Wed. in reply comments. CE groups have urged the FCC to keep the deadline at July 1, 2007, but said they would accept moving up the date 4 months to March 1. Accepting the March 1 proposal by CEA and the Consumer Electronics Retailers Coalition “would be of little value,” NAB and MSTV said. A late-2006 deadline wouldn’t “unduly burden” CE makers and retailers, broadcasters argued, saying CE claims to the contrary have “no merit.” CE “will have well over a year to allocate financial, facilities, engineering and personnel resources to equipping small receivers and other television receiving equipment with DTV tuners,” NAB and MSTV said. They dismissed Philips complaints that to meet a late-2006 deadline it would have to “revisit” factory and personnel decisions already made, saying the CE maker offered no evidence that revisiting old decisions “would outweigh the many benefits of removing analog-only sets from the market.”