§ 79.106   Video description and emergency information accessibility
requirements for recording devices.

   (a) Effective May 26, 2015, all apparatus that is designed to record video
   programming  transmitted simultaneously with sound that is provided by
   entities subject to § § 79.2 and 79.3 and is manufactured in the United States
   or imported for use in the United States, must comply with the provisions of
   this section except that apparatus must only do so if it is achievable as
   defined in § 79.105(b)(3).

   Note 1 to paragraph (a): Apparatus includes the physical device and the
   video  player(s)  capable  of displaying video programming transmitted
   simultaneously with sound that manufacturers install into the devices they
   manufacture before sale, whether in the form of hardware, software, or a
   combination of both, as well as any video players capable of displaying
   video programming transmitted simultaneously with sound that manufacturers
   direct consumers to install after sale.

   Note  2 to paragraph (a): This paragraph places no restrictions on the
   importing, shipping, or sale of apparatus that were manufactured before May
   26, 2015.

   (b) All apparatus subject to this section must enable the presentation or
   the pass through of the secondary audio stream, which will facilitate the
   provision of video description signals and emergency information (as that
   term  is  defined in § 79.2) such that viewers are able to activate and
   de-activate the video description as the video programming is played back on
   a picture screen of any size.

   (c)  All  apparatus  subject  to  this  section  must  comply with the
   interconnection mechanism requirements in § 79.105(c).

   [ 78 FR 31798 , May 24, 2013]

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