Movie studios will reportedly have to wait until next year to see if they will be able to block the analog transmission of high-definition movies on TV.
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin told reporters Tuesday that the agency will not likely address the “selectable output control” (SOC) issue before President-elect Obama takes office next month.
SOC lets copyright owners – namely the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) in this case – tell cable and satellite stations to block the transmission of selected programs to certain devices like TiVos, Slingboxes, or TVs without digital input.
Worried that SOC might impede the proliferation of HD programming, the FCC banned it in 2003, but the commission announced in June that it would reconsider the issue.
Why does the MPAA want SOC?
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