CEA won’t push for an FCC rule requiring broadcasters to pass ‘ac...
CEA won’t push for an FCC rule requiring broadcasters to pass “active format description” data to keep “postage stamp"-format video images off widescreen DTV sets (CD May 22 p5), a spokesman told us. CEA thinks “the voluntary industry activity”…
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promoting AFD’s wider use “should be permitted to continue unfettered by any government mandate at this time,” he said. AFD and bar data “are still in their formative stages and work to complete standardization is still under way,” he said: “It is premature to mandate AFD transmission until the industry has some experience with the technology and determines whether it should be widely adopted. Consumers demand the best possible quality television experience, and broadcasters and manufacturers are motivated to provide the optimum picture, which AFD intends to achieve. Cooperative testing and market forces should rule for now.” NAB declined to comment.