§  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, 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.