47 C.F.R. § 73.9005 Compliance requirements for covered demodulator products: Audio.
Title 47 - Telecommunication
Except as otherwise provided in §§73.9003(a) or 73.9004(a), covered demodulator products shall not output the audio portions of unscreened content or of marked content in digital form except in compressed audio format (such as AC3) or in linear PCM format in which the transmitted information is sampled at no more than 48 kHz and no more than 16 bits/sample. The requirements of this section shall become applicable on July 1, 2005.
Title 47: Telecommunication
PART 73—RADIO BROADCAST SERVICES
Subpart M—Digital Broadcast Television Redistribution Control
§ 73.9005 Compliance requirements for covered demodulator products: Audio.