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FCC 73.9000
Revised as of October 1, 2010
Goto Year:2009 |
2011
§ 73.9000 Definitions.
(a) Authorized digital output protection technology means a technology
approved pursuant to the procedures in § 73.9008.
(b) Authorized recording method means a recording method approved
pursuant to the procedures in § 73.9008.
(c) Bona fide reseller means a party regularly engaged, or about to
become regularly engaged, in the lawful commercial enterprise of
selling, reselling, manufacturing, or assembling demodulators, or
products incorporating demodulators, in compliance with this subpart.
(d) Broadcast flag means the redistribution control descriptor
(rc_descriptor()) described in ATSC A/65B: " Standard: Program and
System Information Protocol for Terrestrial Broadcast and Cable
(Revision B)," (incorporated by reference, see § 73.8000).
(e) Computer product means a product that is designed for or permits
the end user to install a wide variety of commercially available
software applications thereon, such as a personal computer, handheld
"Personal Digital Assistant" and the like, and further includes a
subsystem of such a product, such as a graphics card.
(f) Covered demodulator product means a product that is required under
§ § 73.9002(a)(1) or 73.9002(b)(1) to comply with the demodulator
compliance requirements, and to be manufactured in accordance with the
demodulator robustness requirements.
(g) Demodulator means a component, or set of components, that is
designed to perform the function of 8-VSB, 16-VSB, 64-QAM or 256-QAM
demodulation and thereby produce a data stream for the purpose of
digital television reception.
(h) Demodulator compliance requirements means the requirements set out
in § § 73.9003 through 73.9006.
(i) Demodulator robustness requirements means the requirements set out
in § 73.9007.
(j) Peripheral TSP product means a product that is capable of accessing
in usable form unscreened content or marked content passed to such
product via a robust method where the manufacturer of such product has
committed in writing in accordance with § 73.9002(c) that such product
will comply with the demodulator compliance requirements and be
manufactured in accordance with the demodulator robustness
requirements.
(k) EIT means Event Information Table as defined in ATSC A/65C: "ATSC
Program and System Information Protocol for Terrestrial Broadcast and
Cable, Revision C With Amendment No. 1 dated May 9, 2006," (January 2,
2006), (incorporated by reference, see § 73.8000).
(l) Marked content means, with respect to a Covered demodulator
product, Unencrypted digital terrestrial broadcast content that such
product has
(1) Received and demodulated and for which such product has inspected
either the EIT or PMT and determined the broadcast flag to be present,
or
(2) Where such product is a peripheral TSP product, received via a
robust method and accessed in usable form, and for which such product
either inspected the EIT or PMT and determined the broadcast flag to be
present or determined through information robustly conveyed with such
content that another covered demodulator product had previously so
screened such content and determined the broadcast flag to be present;
provided, however, that, with respect to a covered demodulator product,
marked content shall not include content that has been passed from such
product pursuant to § § 73.9004(a)(1), 73.9004(a)(2), 73.9004(a)(3),
73.9004(a)(5), 73.9004(a)(6), or 73.9006(b).
(m) PMT means program map table as defined in International Standard
ISO/IEC 13818-1:2000(E): "Information Technology--Generic Coding of
Moving Pictures and Associated Audio Information: Systems"
(incorporated by reference, see § 73.8000).
(n) Robust method means, with respect to the passing of unscreened
content or marked content from one product to another, a content
protection method that complies with § 73.9007.
(o) Transitory image means data that has been stored temporarily for
the sole purpose of enabling a function not prohibited by this subpart
but that (1) does not persist materially after such function has been
performed and (2) is not stored in a way that permits copying or
storing of such data for other purposes.
(p) Unencrypted digital terrestrial broadcast content means audiovisual
content contained in the signal broadcast by a digital television
station without encrypting or otherwise making the content available
through a technical means of conditional access, and includes such
content when retransmitted in unencrypted digital form.
(q) Unscreened content means, with respect to a covered demodulator
product, unencrypted digital terrestrial broadcast content that such
product either:
(1) Received and demodulated and for which such product has inspected
neither the EIT nor the PMT for the broadcast flag; or
(2) Where such product is a peripheral TSP product, received via a
robust method and accessed in usable form, and for which such product
has inspected neither the EIT nor the PMT for the broadcast flag and
has not determined through information robustly conveyed with such
content another covered demodulator product had previously so screened
such content and determined the broadcast flag to be present; provided,
however, that, with respect to a covered demodulator product,
unscreened content shall not include content that has been passed from
such product pursuant to § § 73.9003(a)(1), 73.9003(a)(2),
73.9003(a)(3), 73.9003(a)(4), 73.9003(a)(6), 73.9003(a)(7), or
73.9006(b).
(r) User accessible bus means a data bus that is designed for end user
upgrades or access, such as an implementation of a smartcard interface,
PCMCIA, Cardbus, or PCI that has standard sockets or otherwise readily
facilitates end user access. A user accessible bus does not include
memory buses, CPU buses, or similar portions of a device's internal
architecture that do not permit access to content in a form usable by
end users.
[ 68 FR 67603 , Dec. 3, 2003, as amended at 73 FR 5685 , Jan. 30, 2008]
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