Experience Surround FM at the 2005 Conclave
Omnia’s Frank Foti To Head HD Radio™ Sessions
12 July 2005, Cleveland Ohio, USA
For the third consecutive year, Omnia President Frank
Foti has been invited to The Conclave Learning
Conference in Minneapolis, again teaming with respected radio programmer
Don Kelly for an eye-opening
discussion called “Begin the Revolution: HD Radio™ For Fun & Profit.”
“I’m really looking forward to The Conclave.” says Foti. “Last year was
fantastic. The programmers at our
session were amazed at how good music sounds in surround; this year
they’ll be positively blown away
when they hear discrete 5.1 broadcast over HD Radio!”
Telos / Omnia and Fraunhofer Institute (FhG), the developers of MP3 and
MPEG AAC audio coding,
wowed crowds at the 2005 NAB Convention in Las Vegas earlier this year
with two over-the-air
demonstrations of HD Radio surround-sound transmission method using
Telos, Omnia and Axia studio
equipment. Unlike old-fashioned “matrix” schemes, the Fraunhofer system
works with existing HD Radio
codec and transmission equipment, and is fully compatible with stereo
broadcasts and source material.
“When radio programmers and managers first experience HD Radio in
discrete 5.1 they become very
enthusiastic, imagining the competitive and commercial advantages they
could gain by using it,” says Foti.
“Savvy broadcasters immediately realize that they can reap big benefits
from the changes FM Surround
will bring.”
Mr. Foti has authored a compelling white paper discussing the technical
and marketplace advantages of
multi-channel FM entitled The Killer App for FM: 5.1 Surround Sound.
“I’ve heard the future of FM
Radio, and it’s truly exciting,” he writes. “Audio stores say that 90%
of their customers ask for
multichannel sound equipment by name. That’s compelling unto itself!”
The paper may be downloaded
from the Omnia Audio website at
www.OmniaAudio.com/tech/ .
Mr. Foti’s two-part Conclave session will take place Friday, July 23rd
2005, at the Marriott City Center in
Minneapolis. For details, visit www.theconclave.com or contact Caroline
Dorsey at +1-216- 241-7225.
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