NAB 2018: Telos Alliance Continues TV's March Towards AoIP, Demonstrates Linear Acoustic Audio Tech For Broadcast
The Telos Alliance TV Solutions Group (TVSG) continues to lead the television industry’s migration to AoIP at NAB 2018, by featuring products including the Telos Infinity IP Intercom,Minnetonka AudioTools Server, Linear Acoustic APTO for OEM, and Linear Acoustic AMS.
“Our advanced audio and AoIP solutions deliver a full vision that complement the changes in the broadcast and media industries,” says John Schur, president of the Telos Alliance TV Solutions Group. “Our matrix-free IP-based intercom, enterprise file-based workflows, OEM solutions, and real-time processors make up a portfolio of broadcast and media audio solutions that are changing the face of broadcast communications.”
Exhibit highlights include:
The newly-available Telos Infinity IP Intercom is an award-winning AoIP solution that completely reimagines broadcast communication by converging voice communication and contribution audio on a single IT backbone. Employing the latest standards-based VoIP and Livewire+ AES67 AoIP transport, its matrix-free design offers a quantum leap in scalability, ease of integration, efficiency, and total cost of ownership.
Minnetonka AudioTools Server, an enterprise software system for file-based workflows, offers a complete solution for managing and processing linear PCM, Dolby E, Dolby Digital and Dolby Digital Plus content as well as the audio essence in MXF and QuickTime clips. The newest upgrade, v4.5, now includes a new graphical user interface that allows users to quickly create and edit workflows, plus feature enhancements and new processing modules.
Linear Acoustic APTO for OEM is a state-of-the-art loudness processing solution designed to manage loudness levels of both real-time audio streams and file-based assets. APTO simultaneously provides uncompromised audio quality and loudness consistency with full regulatory compliance across all platforms, ensuring the best listening experience for any type of playback environment including DVB, DTT, OTT, radio, gaming, streaming, mobile and more.
Linear Acoustic AMS is the industry’s first product for authoring and monitoring immersive 3D audio in compliance with the ATSC 3.0 Digital Television System specification. AMS simultaneously delivers Next Generation audio for ATSC 3.0 broadcasts and 5.1-/2-ch audio for ATSC 1.0 broadcasts. It features Linear Acoustic APTO loudness control to deliver viewer-pleasing audio quality that is also compliant with all loudness regulations.
Linear Acoustic AMS was awarded NewBay Media’s Best of Show Award at NAB 2017 while the Telos Infinity IP Intercom won NewBay Media’s IBC 2017 Best of Show.
TVSG Demonstrates Linear Acoustic Audio Tech for Broadcast
During NAB 2018, Linear Acoustic, a Telos Alliance TV Solutions Group (TVSG) brand, demonstrated how its advanced audio solutions can deliver new possibilities for improved authoring/processing to the broadcast and production industries.
“High quality audio is essential for the overall success of programming content. Telos Alliance is the leader in developing innovative solutions that broadcasters, engineers and production management have come to rely on,” says Schur. “This new generation of products delivers even more performance and flexibility for professionals, and will be instrumental in driving the future of authoring and loudness processing audio solutions.”
Linear Acoustic APTO for OEMis a state-of-the-art, uncompromised loudness processing and control solution designed for real-time audio streams or file-based assets. Featuring full regulatory compliance across all platforms, APTO provides the best listening experience for any type of playback environment including DVB, DTT, OTT, radio, gaming, streaming, mobile, and more.
Linear Acoustic APTO does not involve dynamic compression technology, but rather is based on algorithms that define the ideal amount of adaptation required. This approach provides fully coherent channels, phase and mix balance, and allows the original dynamics to be preserved without introducing artifacts. The Linear Acoustic APTO product line includes APTO.file for file-based processing and APTO.stream for real-time processing. In both domains, loudness parameters are smoothly controlled, including target loudness, dialog loudness, adaptation %, LRA, and true-peak limiting.
The Linear Acoustic APTO OEM module provides a straightforward C++ interface on Windows and Linux, using input and output sample buffers for easy integration. Independent streams can be processed simultaneously by multiple instances with up to eight (8) channels per stream. Linear Acoustic APTO processing is additionally available in software development kits.
Linear Acoustic AMS Audio Monitoring System is a hardware solution for authoring and monitoring of immersive 3D audio in compliance with the ATSC 3.0 Digital Television System specification. AMS simultaneously delivers advanced audio for ATSC 3.0 broadcasts plus 5.1 and 2-channel audio for ATSC 1.0 broadcasts. It is equipped with Linear Acoustic APTO for loudness management and compliance.
The Linear Acoustic AMS web interface allows the authoring engineer to easily control the interactive features offered to viewers, and to build presets for different listening experiences. This enables viewers to personalize their sound experience for optimal playback on any platform, from mobile devices to immersive home theaters. Additionally, the web GUI provides for device configuration and status, monitoring control, input/output routing, audio mixing and object panning, and loudness management via Linear Acoustic APTO.