The DATE System: Program Audio via Existing Video Transmission Facilities

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Publisher: SMPTE — White Plains, NY, USA
Doc Type: Journal Article
Content Type: Original Research
Abbreviated Title: J SMPTE
Volume: 88, No. 6, pp. 421–425
Abstract: Several methods for combining sound program audio with the video baseband signal for concurrent transmission have been investigated in recent years. This paper describes one of these methods. It uses a digital technique in which four 15-kHz audio channels are digitized, multiplexed, and modulated on a subcarrier placed at 5.5 MHz, just above the NTSC baseband video spectrum. This method is called DATE (Digital Audio for Television). It produces no perceptible picture degradation, and audio quality is maintained at a 70-dB signal-to-noise ratio. DATE is extremely attractive because it reduces operating costs, eliminates the need for maintaining separate audio transmission facilities, and maintains high quality audio performance. Now in operation with the Public Broadcasting Service satellite transmission project, DATE applications for four-channel audio include: stereophonic and quadraphonic audio, multilingual programming, cueing, orderwire, and analog data channels.
Publication Date: 1979-06-01
DOI: 10.5594/J06661
ISSN: Print: 0036-1682
Link: https://doi.org/10.5594/J06661
Author(s): Steven B. SalamoffDigital Communications Corp., 19 Firstfield Rd., Gaithersburg, MD 20760.
Copyright: © 1979 Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, Inc.

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Date: A Digital Audio System for Television [Active]
2. Bell Telephone Labs , Transmission Systems for Communication , 4th ed. , Winston-Salem, 1971 ; p. 573 . EXTERNAL
3. “Digital Sound Signals, Subjective Effect of Timing Jitter,” BBC Research Dept. Rept. RD 1974/11, BBC, Mar. 1974 , pp. 4 – 5 . EXTERNAL

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