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The German DBS Digital Sound Broadcasting System: General Description

Authors: Plenge, Georg

AES Convention 77 · Paper 2203 · March 1985

Abstract

This new system to be installed in the FRG in 1986 brings about a great advance in radio program distribution. The main features are: 1) Consequently high-quality (16-bit resolution) digital transmission from studio to receiver using one satellite channel in time multiplex technique for 16 stereo programs, 2) radio station from wherever in the FRG can deliver programs; distribution nation-wide without blanks or shadows; reception also possible far from the service area, 3) no tuning of the receiver, only choice of 1 out of 16, and 4) additional information and special services: Program-type speech/music identification; single and extended source information (stills), etc.

Details

Published in
AES Convention 77
AES Convention
77
Paper number
2203
Publication date
March 6, 1985
Session subject
Digital and Analog Recording
Affiliation
Institut fur Rundfunktechnik GmbH (IRT), Munchen, W-Germany (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Convention Paper