Digital Proof-of-Performance Testing More Cost Than Benefit, NCTA Says
Requiring digital cable systems to do proof-of-performance testing would burden and cost operators "without yielding any corresponding benefits," NCTA said in an FCC docket 12-217 filing Thursday. Even one-time testing to verify compliance with the ANSI/SCTE 40 standard "would be…
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expensive and burdensome," NCTA said, saying members' cost estimates for multiple system operators range from slightly less than $1 million to several times that, depending on the number of required test points and equipment needs. The association said such testing is particularly labor intensive and the training and time spent doing the testing would divert system technical staff from regular duties. NCTA said such testing could negatively affect subscribers since operators might have to turn off some channels.