§ 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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