Brazilian Forum for Digital TV Selects Coding Technologies' and DTS' MPEG-4 aacPlus/DTS Audio Solution for Digital Terrestrial Television Based on ISDB-T.AMSTERDAM, Netherlands -- Coding Technologies today announced that the company's aacPlus audio solution has been selected by the Brazilian Digital TV Forum for Brazil's digital terrestrial ISDB-T ISDB-T Integrated Services Digital Broadcasting - Terrestrial platform to be officially launched on December 2nd, 2007. A number of channels using the aacPlus audio format were already being broadcast during the recent SET2007 broadcast & cable tradeshow in Sao Paulo. The deployment of Coding Technologies' highly efficient aacPlus audio codec for emission of stereo and surround sound in SD (Standard Definition) and HD (High Definition) TV services enables broadcasters to deliver more TV programming at lower transmission costs. DTS (1) (Digital Theatre Sound) A digital audio encoding system used in movie and home theaters. Popularized by the movie Jurassic Park, the six-channel (5. Digital Surround is implemented to transcode (1) To convert from one format to another. It implies conversion between very distinct kinds of data, such as from speech into text or from analog video into digital frames. Sometimes the term is used as nothing more than a fancier synonym for "convert. multi-channel audio signals in the set top box. Broadcaster can thereby directly supply surround sound programming to the vast majority of home theater systems. In the latest EBU (European Broadcasting Union “EBU” redirects here. For other uses, see EBU (disambiguation). The European Broadcasting Union (EBU; French: L'Union Européenne de Radio-Télévision ("UER") ) test of audio compression formats, aacPlus outperformed all other audio codecs in the test field in terms of efficiency while scoring overall audio quality results in the excellent range. Its high level of efficiency makes aacPlus the only codec designed for and suited to any broadcasting application, from mobile, SD and HDTV. "We have been very impressed by the high audio quality of MPEG-4 aacPlus", says Paulo Henrique Castro, chairman of the technical committee of Brazil's SBTVD (Sistema Brasileiro de Televisao Digital - Brazilian System of Digital Television) Development Committee. "We are happy to recommend the adoption of aacPlus as the audio format for all SD and HDTV services and we are now in the final process of discussions to the use of this technology in order to have it officially implemented in the Brazilian system." "aacPlus is the most innovative digital audio codec available today, and it has gained broad support by device manufacturers in the past year," adds Roberto Franco, President of the SET (Sociedade Brasileira de Engenharia de Televisao - Brazilian Television Engineering Society). "The forum clearly supports the recommendation of aacPlus as the audio format to the government. This will bring Brazil into a leading role in the digital TV market of Latin America." The Brazilian Digital TV system will be demonstrated at IBC at Coding Technologies' stand from September 7-11, in hall 12P, stand#100. All trade names, company names and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of the respective owners Coding Technologies Coding Technologies provides the best audio compression for mobile, broadcasting, and Internet. SBR[TM] (Spectral Band Replication (audio, compression) Spectral Band Replication - (SBR) Guessing the nontransmitted higher frequency range of a compressed audio file by some helper bits (transmiited with the stream) and the transmitted base band. ) from Coding Technologies is a backward and forward Adv. 1. backward and forward - moving from one place to another and back again; "he traveled back and forth between Los Angeles and New York"; "the treetops whipped to and fro in a frightening manner"; "the old man just sat on the porch and rocked back and forth all compatible method to enhance the efficiency of any audio codec; putting the "PRO" in mp3PRO and the "Plus" in aacPlus. Parametric Stereo from Coding Technologies and Philips again significantly increases the efficiency of audio codecs for stereo signals at low bit rates. Products from Coding Technologies are fundamental enablers of open standards such as 3GPP, 3GPP2, MPEG (Moving Pictures Experts Group) An ISO/ITU standard for compressing digital video. Pronounced "em-peg," it is the universal standard for digital terrestrial, cable and satellite TV, DVDs and digital video recorders (DVRs). , DVB, Digital Radio Mondiale (communications) Digital Radio Mondiale - (DRM) A form of monaural digital broadcast using carrier frequencies below 30 MHz. DRM uses MPEG-4 AAC Main Profile and SBR at data rates of 16-25 kbps. http://drm.org/. , HD Radio, and the DVD Forum. Coding Technologies is a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. with offices in Sweden, Germany, China, and the USA. Founded in 1997 in Stockholm, the company later merged with a spin-off of the renowned Fraunhofer Institute in Germany, the inventor of MP3. Coding Technologies' customers include America Online, EMP, iBiquity Digital, KDDI, O2, Nokia, Orange, RealNetworks, SK Telecom, Sprint, T-Mobile, Thomson, Texas Instruments, Vodafone, and XM Satellite Radio. For more information, visit www.codingtechnologies.com. DTS Founded in 1993, DTS, Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : DTSI) is a digital technology company dedicated to delivering the ultimate entertainment experience. DTS decoders are in virtually every major brand of 5.1-channel surround processor, and there are hundreds of millions of DTS-licensed consumer electronics products available worldwide. A pioneer in multi-channel audio, DTS technology is in home theatre, car audio, PC and game console products, as well as DVD-Video, Surround Music and DVD-ROM DVD-ROM: see digital versatile disc. A read-only DVD disc used to permanently store data files. DVD-ROM discs are widely used to distribute large software applications that exceed the capacity of a CD-ROM disc. software. DTS audio products are featured on more than 27,000 motion picture screens worldwide. DTS is headquartered in Agoura Hills, California For the unincorporated community, see . Agoura Hills is a city (incorporated in 1982) in Los Angeles County, California, and has the ZIP code 91301. The population was 20,537 at the 2000 census. This city on the Ventura Freeway (U.S. and has offices in the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Canada, Hong Kong, Japan and China. For further information, please visit www.dts.com. DTS is a registered trademark of DTS, Inc. |
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