CVCC Lays Out Requirements for App-Based Set-Top Plan

The Consumer Video Choice Coalition still supports the original FCC set-top proposal, but said an app- based solution must preserve the same core ideas outlined in the NPRM, representatives from CVCC members Incompas, CCIA, Hauppauge, Public Knowledge, Vizio and TiVo relayed in a meeting Tuesday with aides to FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler and with FCC Chief Technologist Scott Jordan, according to an ex parte posted Friday in docket 16-42. They said an app-based set-top proposal needs to be available on a wide choice of platforms, offer the same services as multichannel video programming distributors and include universal search and an “open, independent UI [user interface]." The proposal would need to include rules preventing discriminatory treatment by MVPDs, and strong enforcement mechanisms, CVCC said. “Any solution adopted by the FCC should ensure that consumers can access all the content they have paid for on the device of their choosing.” NAB issued a warning on copyright related to the proceeding, also Friday in the docket (see 1609020032).