DBE08 - Dolby E Encoder stand alone or ADD-ON card

Description

The DBE08 is a stand-alone Dolby E encoder. Although it is not a complete replacement for the DP571 from Dolby Laboratories, it can be considered as a functional equivalent. The advantages however are the facts that the DBE08 is modular, can run on a dual power supply, Ethernet and SNMP compatible, and has a nice enhancement to the menu structure. This last item is an interesting feature. The DBE08 can handle 8 presets with metadata (A through H) and 10 presets of different program combinations. The often used program combinations like 5.1+2 are available with 4 times the individual metadata sets. This will result in the possibility to have 4 times the program combination 5.1+2, but with 8 different metadata settings.

Features

• Stand alone Dolby E encoder
• Fully compatible with Audio ADD-ON bus
• 20 bit mode for 8 channels, 16 bit mode for 6 channels encoding
• 4 presets 5.1+2 (with 8 different metadata sets)
• 4 presets 2+2 (with 8 different metadata sets)
• 2 presets 2+2+2+2 (with 8 different metadata sets)
• Metadata settings for:
  • Program text (16 character text)
  • Dialog level
  • Bit-stream identification
  • Dynamic range (film, music, speech, etc.)
  • RF mode Dynamic range (11 dB more sensitive)
  • Center downmix level
  • Surround downmix level
  • Dolby surround
  • Preferred downmix
  • Lt/Rt Center and Surround downmix level
  • Lo/Ro Center and Surround downmix level
  • Surround-EX flag
  • DC filter
  • LFE filter
  • Low-pass filter
  • Surround 3dB attenuation
  • Surround phase shift

• Input channel swapping (any channel to any encoder input)
• Individual gain and phase adjustment per mono channel
• Individual delay offset adjustment (0 to 1300 ms)
• Built-in generator
• One selectable AES/EBU bypass input with additional delay settings
• Locks to Black & Burst or Master card