Advanced Television Systems Committee Begins Review of ATSC 3.0 Audio System Proposals

On December 2014, the ATSC issued a Call for Proposals for a comprehensive audio system for the next generation ATSC 3.0 digital television standard. Dolby (with Atmos), DTS (with DTS:X) and a consortium comprising Technicolor, Fraunhofer and Qualcomm (jointly promoting MPEG-H Audio) have submitted their audio systems. Now, the ATSC has begun its technical review of the three detailed proposals.

The 57th Audio Engineering Society Conference brings leaders in the audio-for-picture field together to explore the industry’s strengths and weaknesses, and to chart a common path into the future. Friday, March 6–8, 2015, in Hollywood, California, at the renowned TCL Chinese 6 Theatres.

The German R&D institute, Fraunhofer IIS (developers of mp3 and co-developers of AAC), previewed the future of audio entertainment for TV broadcasts at CES International 2014 in Las Vegas, where they unveiled the new Fraunhofer TV audio system based on the upcoming open audio standard MPEG-H Audio.

The collaboration between innovative plug-in developer Sonnox and MP3 inventor Fraunhofer IIS started in 2011 with the launch of the Pro-Codec mastering software. Sonnox and Fraunhofer are currently seeking an affordable solution to encode music for the web. The Codec …