Broadcast Guidelines Go Global

The UK was the first to protect viewers and continues to lead in detection and correction of harmful images, and real-time performance and a superior interface make the Harding FPA the product of choice from Clearcast through Channel 4 and the BBC and, of course, the UK's top Post Houses.

Now PSE compliance is going global, and the Harding FPA will be ready to test to all the latest standards as they come into force in the USA, Japan, Europe and worldwide.

Links to some Guidelines and Regulators

In December 2003, Ofcom inherited the duties of the Independent Television Commission (ITC) in the UK. They have published a Guidance Note for Licensees on Flashing Images and Regular Patterns in Television and have performed a consultation  in order to publish a new Braodcasting Code during 2005.  Both Cambridge Research Systems and Graham Harding participated in the consultation, and you can read our comments here:

Alleviating the Technical Burdens of PSE Compliance for Broadcasters - Cambridge Research Systems
Risk to Viewers with Photosensitive Epilepsy - Professor Graham Harding

In the UK, most broadcasters contribute to running Clearcast, a specialist body responsible for the pre-transmission examination and clearance of television advertisements.  Clearcast use the Harding FPA as part of their testing procedure.

The International Standards Organisation is drafting an International Workshop Agreement on Image Safety (IWA4).

Cambridge Research Systems' Managing Director, Tom Robson, was one of the speakers at the workshop in Tokyo, 7th-9th December 2004.

An International Telecommunication Union (ITU) recommendation was ratified in February 2005. 

Check Websites Too

The Harding FPA analysis engine is also used in a website checker being developed at the Trace Research & Development Center, part of the College of Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a pioneer in the field of technology and disability.