The Linear Acoustic LA-5300 Broadcast Audio Processor provides everything broadcasters need to be ready for NEXTGEN TV/ATSC 3.0 audio in a single, compact, integrated package, including loudness control, upmixing, encoding, transcoding, audience measurement watermarking, switching and monitoring for up to 4 simultaneous real-time program streams.
- Dolby® AC-4 encoding from PCM
- Transcoding from Dolby Digital and Dolby Digital Plus to AC-4
- AC-4 decoding for watermarking and bitstream analysis and monitoring
- Linear Acoustic UPMAX® ISC upmixing
- Optional Verance or Nielsen watermarking
- Dolby Real-Time Loudness Leveler when encoding to AC-4
- Dual 3Gb/s HD/SD-SDI, 5 pairs of AES-3 I/O, and AES67 I/O to support SMPTE ST 2110-30 and -31 workflows
- Optional Quad-Link 3Gb/s SDI I/O for supporting 4K workflows or MADI I/O (mutually exclusive)
- Dual 1000BaseT Ethernet connections (AES67 and control)
- SNMP alarm and status reporting
- Web-based user interface provides comprehensive setup, configuration, routing, control, and metering