CAI

The Department of Business Innovation and Skills (BIS) are introducing important changes to the Digital Switchover Certification Mark (Digital Tick) licence procedure from 1 January 2010. The changes will affect all applicants registering new digital TVs, boxes and recorders for the first time.  At this point in time the signal reception installing industry pathway to the digital tick is unaffected as far as the CAI is aware.  There is no mention of any specific differences to benchmarked kit processes already in place.  It appears that TV receivers (IDTVs & digital adapters) are under the most scrutiny at the moment.
 
All applicants registering new products for the first time must at the same time provide test reports to AEA Momenta (Digital UK’s agents) showing that the product meets the required standards of the BIS recognised industry test suites and processes (currently the Digital TV Group test suite).
 
Within three months of the licence award date, applicants should provide the DTG ‘Zoo’ with a working, representative sample of the launched version of the product. This is defined as that which would be purchased in store by the consumer, to include packaging, correct remote control and instruction manual. When the application refers to a series of TV models with different screen sizes, the smallest available model size should be supplied.  The same principal applies for recorder ranges with varying hard-disk memory sizes.
 
For more information visit: http://digitallogo.digitaluk.co.uk