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Industry "preparations are well underway for deploying video description" for mobile DTV beforenan FCC October deadline on access to emergency alerts, NAB told agency officials implementingnthe 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act. NAB engineering and legal officialsncited the association's discussions with members of the Mobile Content Venture and Mobile 500 Alliancengroups of broadcasters working on mobile DTV and with makers of consumer electronics. TVnstations "have begun testing transmissions of video description utilizing a second audio channel," annNAB filing said of the discussion with staff of the Consumer & Governmental Affairs and Media bureaus.n"The Commission’s rules should not dictate transmission standards in the rapidly evolving mobilenenvironment." The rules should "afford flexibility to ensure that program originators and equipmentnmanufacturers are able to decode and integrate additional audio information," so viewers can getnemergency information, said the filing (http://bit.ly/WVr0Pp) posted Wednesday in docket 12-107.nThat's where the group has sought a phase-in of rules and said mobile DTV shouldn't face some mandatesnbecause the act "contemplates that Mobile DTV not be required to meet certain requirements"n(http://bit.ly/YJiIIm). CE makers also have sought leeway from the coming rules for mobilenDTV (CD Feb 14 p18).