The MPAA wants the FCC to rebuff demands for conditions on a sele...

the group said Thursday in reply comments. The Digital Transmission Licensing Administrator and TiVo want the conditions, but “there is no demonstrated public interest need” for the FCC to “mandate which outputs must be used to provide the proposed new services,” the MPAA said. A “one-size-fits-all approach would not take into account potential variances between different services and providers,” it said. For on-demand streaming of HD movies to homes before DVD or Blu-ray release, the SOC waiver being sought, studios and service providers “should have the flexibility to use the technologies that are best suited to serve the needs of their mutual customers, while balancing the need to protect their content,” the MPAA said. It’s “not in the interest” of the MPAA or service providers “to unnecessarily limit access to the services or to cause consumer confusion,” the group said. DTLA said decisions on use of particular outputs can’t be left to content owners’ and service providers’ “unfettered discretion.” But that “belies the complex realities involved with the development and inclusion of various inputs, outputs, and content protection technologies on video reception equipment,” the MPAA said. Device makers’ decisions on which inputs and outputs to place on their products have “a profound impact on how consumers can use those devices and the services they will be able to receive,” the MPAA said. “However, given the dynamic nature and rapid evolution of technology today, these decisions are appropriately left to the marketplace and private sector solutions.”