An ordinance from the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC) was issued in 2011 on revision of the audio coding formats of 8K Super Hi-Vision (8K) broadcasting using 22.2 multichannel ...

SAN FRANCISCO—Last month's article discussed the theory behind high-end audio coding. The second half of this series will define broadcast quality and tandem coding losses, and look at their effect on ...

Wireless Audio is a current hot topic in Consumer Electronics. The world is wireless in many mediums, however high quality wireless audio has been slow to emerge. Delivering seamless quality audio in ...

NHK’s 8K Super Hi-Vision (8K) broadcasting system has 22.2 multichannel (22.2 ch) sound as its sound system. 22.2 ch sound uses 24 channels that produce highly immersive surround sound giving ...

Chances are very good that you have been exposed to the artifacts of perceptual audio coding without even knowing it. Perceptual audio coding, in a general sense, is a method for reducing the amount ...

Lossy compression schemes can be based on a source model, as in the case of speech compression, or a user or sink model, as is somewhat the case in image compression. In this chapter we look at audio ...

The Layer II coder provides a higher compression rate by making some relatively minor modifications to the Layer I coding scheme. These modifications include how the samples are grouped together, the ...