Specifications

Standards and Practices for Authoring Dolby
®
Digital and Dolby E Bitstreams
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Table 1 Example of Consumer Products and Output Options
Digital
I/O
5.1-Channel
Analog Outputs
Two-Channel
Analog Outputs
RF
Remodulated
Output
Notes
5.1-Channel
Amplifier
X X
The regular A/V amp
5.1-Channel
Decoder
X
High-End
DVD Player
X X X
DVD Player
X X
PC
X (X) X
Includes games consoles
High-End
Set-Top Box
X X X X
Often HDTV
Set-Top Box
X X X
Usually SDTV
IDTV
X X
TV set with an integrated
digital TV tuner
High-End
TV
X X
Large screen TV with 5.1
speakers
4 DVD Authoring System Overview
4.1 DP569/DP562 with Dolby Recorder
This the most common setup for Dolby Digital encoding and decoding in use today. It
provides a Dolby Digital bitstream that can be stored on a PC computer and used
within any DVD authoring package as well as for reference decoding. It has also been
used in mixing situations, since configuring an encoder back-to-back with a decoder
was the only way to monitor the effects of metadata on program audio, until the
introduction of the DP570 Multichannel Audio Tool.