Berlin, 14. September 2005
Cube-Tec exhibits DOBBIN at the 17th Popkomm
Cube-Tec International, well-known for its professional digital audio workstations, and Coding Technologies, the leading provider of audio compression technology for digital broadcasting, mobile music and the Internet, present the integration of Coding Technologies' aacPlus v2 audio coding engine into DOBBIN, Cube-Tec's brand new Audio Rendering Farm, at the Popkomm Exhibition - the business platform for music & entertainment in Berlin.
The DOBBIN solution offers automated, quality-controlled encoding and processing of complete audio archives within a scalable, multi-PC based framework.
aacPlus v2 has proven its outstanding coding efficiency in multiple independent tests conducted by 3GPP (3rd Generation Partnership Project) and the EBU (European Broadcasting Union), delivering CD-quality stereo at 48 kbit/s, and excellent quality stereo down to 24 kbit/s. This level of efficiency facilitates new applications such as the delivery of music to mobile devices, and radically reduces transmission costs compared to legacy codecs, without compromising the audio quality. Consequently, aacPlus v2 has been selected by many important standardization bodies such as 3GPP or DVB (Digital Video Broadcasting) as the codec for high quality content delivery. Through the adoption of aacPlus v2, DOBBIN is the world's first professional content creation and aggregation solution for this emerging market, such as mobile music download, or internet music delivery.
"Cube-Tec developed a new quality observer technology for DOBBIN, defining a new level in quality supervision of automatic audio mass processing. As aacPlus v2 is the next generation encoder format, there is a strong demand for high quality mass encoding of aacPlus audio files now", said Joerg Houpert, Technical Director of Cube-Tec International.
Toni Fiedler, Manager Business Development, Coding Technologies added: "the DOBBIN Audio Rendering Farm, with it high scalability, seems to be the right answer at the right time to ensure the delivery of aacPlus content with the best product efficiency".
The DOBBIN Audio Rendering Farm will be showcased at the Coding Technologies' booth together with Bertelsmann subsidiary Arvato Mobile.
About Coding Technologies GmbH
Coding Technologies provides the best audio compression for mobile, broadcasting, and Internet. SBR(TM) (Spectral Band Replication) from Coding Technologies is a backward and forward compatible method to enhance the efficiency of any audio codec; putting the "PRO" in mp3PRO and the "Plus" in aacPlus. Parametric Stereo from Coding Technologies and Philips again significantly increases the efficiency of audio codecs for stereo signals at low bit rates. Products from Coding Technologies are fundamental enablers of open standards such as MPEG, Digital Radio Mondiale, DVB, 3GPP, HD Radio, and the DVD Forum.
Coding Technologies is a privately held company with offices in Sweden, Germany, and Silicon Valley. Founded in 1997 in Stockholm, the company later merged with a spin-off of the renowned Fraunhofer Institute in Germany, the inventor of MP3. Coding Technologies' customers include America Online, iBiquity Digital, Orban, mmO2, Nokia, RealNetworks, SK Telecom, Thomson, Texas Instruments, Vodafone, and XM Satellite Radio.
For more information, visit www.codingtechnologies.com
About Cube-Tec International GmbH
Cube-Tec International builds its success on 15 years of research and development assets of the well-known companies Houpert Digital Audio, Spectral Design and Cube-Tec Development, and incorporates Cube Technologies' distribution network.
The company's "Quadriga" automated capturing station for quality-controlled analog-to-digital conversion of sound archives is the world standard in audio archival. Cube-Tec's mastering and authoring products such as AudioCube or CubeDVD-A, are broadly deployed in renowned mastering studios by world-class experts like Bernie Grundman, and Bob Ludwig.
Cube-Tec International's customers include the Library of Congress (USA), the National Archives of the USA, Australia, Denmark, New Zealand, and Luxemburg, Sonopress/Bertelsmann, Universal Studios (Germany), National Public Radio (USA), Germany's Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF), and most of the major public broadcasters of Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden and Finland.