Introduction

The LA-5300 provides everything broadcasters need to be ready for NEXTGEN TV/ATSC 3.0 audio in a single, compact, integrated package, including:

• Dolby® AC-4 encoding from PCM

• Transcoding from Dolby Digital and Dolby Digital Plus to Dolby AC-4

• Dolby AC-4 decoding for audience measurement watermarking and bitstream analysis and monitoring

• Linear Acoustic UPMAX® ISC upmixing

• Optional Verance and Nielsen watermarking

• Loudness control via Dolby Real-Time Loudness Leveler (when encoding to Dolby AC-4)

Optionally, it also provides processing for a second legacy ATSC 1.0 program, including:

• Dolby® Digital Plus (E-AC-3) and Dolby Digital (AC-3) encoding

• Linear Acoustic UPMAX® ISC upmixing

• Optional Verance and Nielsen watermarking

• Loudness control via Linear Acoustic APTO® or Dolby Real-Time Loudness Leveler

Note - The LA-5300 is also available in a decode and monitor-only version which omits upmixing, watermarking, and AC-4 encoding (which includes loudness control). Accordingly, some menus, screens, and controls will look different from those seen here.