Leader Electronics (President:Kozo Nagao) has added Dolby Atmos audio functionality to its LVB440 IP packet monitoring system. The reason for the addition of this function is that Dolby Atmos is attracting attention worldwide for its use in cinema and other stereoscopic audio technologies.
The new functions are as follows.
- Dolby E, Dolby ED2 and Dolby Digital Plus decoding using Dolby Atmos.
- Phase relationship between Dolby E/ED2 and video frames, indicating if audio data may be corrupted during video switching.
- Support for rendering object based audio in user configurable stereo or 5.1 speaker configurations.
- Object visualiser for Dolby ED2 and Dolby Digital Plus.
- (Shows the live position of audio objects in interactive 3D
LVB440 audio measurement screen
Leader established in 1954, has 70 years of experience in designing and manufacturing highly reliable, practical and powerful test & measurement instruments. Leader products are specified for broadcast, production, post-production, research, product development, manufacturing and service applications. The Leader product range includes award-winning 3G/HD/SD SDI waveform monitors and rasterizers, all with customizable layouts. Among the available options are 8K, 4K-UHD, CIE color chart, HDR measurement, test pattern generation, eye and jitter measurement, closed-caption display, IP, and 12G/6G-SDI. Leader has helped many customers manage their transition from analog to digital, from SD to HD, from SDI to IP, HD to UHD and SDR to HDR.