‘Participation in CEA standards activities is open to all interes...
“Participation in CEA standards activities is open to all interested parties,” CEA said, responding to an ex parte filed at the FCC by the Coalition for Independent Ratings Services. Coalition members, including Media Data Corp., had alleged they were…
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shut out of the process to revise the CEA- 766-A specification, which enables DTV sets to read U.S. and Canadian “region rating tables” (RRTs) using “program and system information protocol” (PSIP) in the ATSC standard. CEA has “already communicated to Media Data that we welcome their participation and look forward to receiving their input,” CEA said. As for Coalition allegations that CEA had reserved “RRT 0X05” for itself for future use, CEA said ATSC is “the librarian” for RRTs, and “we reserved the placeholder for future downloadable rating systems.”