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III. PRIMARY RECOMMENDATIONS REGARDING CURRENT AND FUTURE <br />COMMUNITY CABLE - RELATED NEEDS AND INTERESTS <br />A. CABLE PLANT AND HEADEND <br />1. Any cable system serving the NSCC franchise area should include features <br />typically found in state -of -the -art systems. The Franchise should include reasonable standards <br />for upgrades during the Franchise term, as technological changes occur. <br />2. There is a need for and interest in ensuring that the signal quality and <br />functionality of PEG Access channels is equivalent to the highest quality channel offered on <br />the cable system, both now and throughout the Franchise term. <br />3. There is a need for and interest in having the ability to easily transmit `live" <br />programming from locations throughout the NSCC franchise area. <br />4. In addition to maintaining a minimum of the current allocation of bandwidth for <br />the PEG Access channels and programming in the NSCC franchise area, there is a need for <br />and interest in ensuring that Comcast provides sufficient capacity and other accommodations <br />to enable: (a) the transmission of closed captions for PEG Access programs that are <br />delivered with such content; (b) the delivery of PEG Access channels to cable subscribers in <br />the same formats that are used by the highest quality commercial channel carried on the <br />system, including high definition; and (c) on- demand viewing of PEG Access programming <br />[including selected PEG Access programs to be available in high definition to cable <br />subscribers via the on- demand service]. <br />5. Comcast should continue to provide the physical plant, spectrum and any <br />necessary equipment at the headend and node locations set aside as an Institutional <br />Network (I -Net), as required by and described in the current franchise, to permit video, voice, <br />and data to be originated and received at designated I -Net sites on a point -to -point and point - <br />to -multi -point basis. Additionally, the 1 -Net should be expanded to include additional points <br />throughout the NSCC franchise area, to facilitate the ability of CTV to originate live <br />programming from the community. <br />6. There is a need for and interest in ensuring that Comcast includes full <br />program listings for PEG Access programs on their electronic and print program guides. <br />ix <br />10 <br />