NTIA should require ‘full-disclosure labeling’ on coupon-eligible...
NTIA should require “full-disclosure labeling” on coupon-eligible DTV converter boxes because the agency’s final rule made BTSC stereo capability a permitted but not a required feature on those set-tops, technology company THAT Corp. told NTIA Director John Kneuer in…
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a letter Wednesday. THAT, which succeeded dbx Inc., administers BTSC patents and licenses and has waged an uphill campaign to convince CE makers to build BTSC functionality into the boxes’ RF outputs. “If the NTIA is not going to require BTSC stereo, it is in the interest of consumers, retailers and taxpayers that boxes be clearly and prominently labeled,” THAT CEO Leslie Tyler told Kneuer.