Despite complaints by CE manufacturers and retailers, NCTA told F...
Despite complaints by CE manufacturers and retailers, NCTA told FCC that cable industry continued to make progress in resolving DTV-cable compatibility issues with consumer electronics industry (CD April 30 p5). In its 2nd 6-month update to Commission, NCTA said…
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CableLabs had completed its OpenCable hardware specifications for competitive digital cable set-top boxes to be sold at retail level. Group said CableLabs also was developing companion OpenCable software specifications for digital cable boxes. NCTA said cable and CE industries had completed gaining approval of new network interface specifications that NCTA and CEA negotiated early last year. NCTA also said cable industry was working with its set-top manufacturers to implement carriage of independent Program & System Information Protocol (PSIP) data for electronic program guides on cable systems, which cable and CE industries also agreed to last year. “As we said in our November 30 report, the agreement focuses on the carriage of PSIP through the distribution chain and not its creation by program providers,” NCTA said. “As such, these carriage requirements are based on the availability of PSIP data from the content provider.”