AXON expands Synapse Dolby© processing rangeJanuary 14th, 2009

Synapse has been enhanced with the release of the DDP14 and DDP84: Multi stream Dolby Digital Plus encoder with Dolby E decoder (DDP84 only)

AXON is one of the first to use Dolby^© Laboratories’ next generation of digital transmission and optical formats. The advantage of Dolby Digital Plus is a channel count of up to 7.1 (13.1 in the future) and bit rates of about 50 percent of normal Dolby Digital. An important application is the transcoding of normal Dolby Digital to Dolby Digital plus for cable head-ends. This gives a data rate reduction of 50% for the audio path. The DDP84 includes a Dolby E decoder. This enables the decoding of Dolby E and encoding that into Dolby Digital (plus) with only one Synapse card. The calculation power of the DDP14/84 make a simultaneous encoding of 4 individual stereo channels (languages) to 4 Dolby Digital (Plus) 2.0 streams possible.

“The DDP14 and DDP84 are a logical expansion of our Synapse Dolby^© processing range”, says Peter Schut AXON’s CTO. “We were one of the first to add a Dolby E  decoder (DBD08) to a signal processing range. We later added the Dolby E encoder (DBE08) and the Dolby Digital encoder (DDE51). So when Dolby^© launched Dolby Digital Plus it was a no-brainer that this should be added into Synapse”.

 The units find their application in:

•   Multi channel encoding,

• Transcoding of Dolby Digital to Dolby Digital Plus,

• Multi language encoding, 4 x stereo Dolby Digital (Plus)

• Decoding Dolby E, to encode into Dolby Digital (Plus) with one card (DDP84 only)