§ 76.1908   Certain practices not prohibited.

   Nothing in this subpart shall be construed as prohibiting a covered
   entity from:

   (a) Encoding, storing or managing commercial audiovisual content within
   its distribution system or within a covered product under the control
   of a covered entity's commercially adopted access control method,
   provided that the outcome for the consumer from the application of the
   encoding rules set out in § 76.1904(a) and (b) is unchanged thereby
   when such commercial audiovisual content is released to consumer
   control and provided that all other laws, regulations, or licenses
   applicable to such encoding, storage, or management shall be unaffected
   by this section, or

   (b) Causing, with respect to a specific covered product, the output of
   content from such product in a format as necessary to match the display
   format of another device connected to such product, including but not
   limited to providing for content conversion between widely-used formats
   for the transport, processing and display of audiovisual signals or
   data, such as between analog and digital formats and between PAL and
   NTSC or RGB and Y,Pb,Pr.

   [ 68 FR 66735 , Nov. 28, 2003, as amended at  76 FR 40280 , July 8, 2011]

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