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Bower, A.J., NICAM 728 – Digital<br />

Two-Channel Sound for Terrestrial<br />

Television, BBC Research Dept.<br />

Report, 8/89. (Kingswood<br />

Warren, U.K.: BBC, 1989).<br />

ETSI ETS 300163 V1.2.1, NICAM<br />

728: Transmission of two-channel<br />

digital sound with terrestrial television<br />

systems B, G, H, I, K1 and L.<br />

ETSI ETS 300732, Enhanced 625-line<br />

PAL/SECAM television; Ghost cancellation<br />

reference (GCR) signals.<br />

Audio in PAL<br />

Historically, PAL television has used frequency-modulated<br />

sound, with ±50 kHz deviation, with sound carrier<br />

frequency dependent upon the broadcasting standard.<br />

A system called Zweiton has been used to broadcast<br />

stereo audio in Germany since 1981.<br />

Many television broadcasters in Europe provide stereo<br />

sound using a system called NICAM (also known as<br />

NICAM 728). NICAM stands for Near Instantaneous<br />

Companded Audio Multiplex. “Near instantaneous<br />

companding” refers to a dynamic amplitude compression<br />

system that operates on a short time period (1 ms),<br />

whereby 14-bit original samples, taken at 32 kHz, are<br />

companded digitally to 10 bits. A high-frequency<br />

subcarrier – 5.85 MHz in System B/G, or 6.552 MHz in<br />

System I – is digitally modulated with a 728 kb/s datastream<br />

that comprises 728-bit NICAM packets, transmitted<br />

continuously, one packet every millisecond.<br />

“Multiplex” refers to several potential sources of audio<br />

data. The standard provides for several modes, but only<br />

two modes are widely deployed: NICAM typically transmits<br />

either one digital stereo sound channel, or two<br />

completely separate mono sound channels.<br />

In 1997, a ghost cancellation reference (GCR) signal<br />

virtually identical to the ghost canceling reference signal<br />

of NTSC was introduced to PAL and SECAM in Europe.<br />

It is transmitted on line 318. It has uniform spectral<br />

content between DC and 5.0 MHz and negligible<br />

content above 5.2 MHz.<br />

PAL-M, PAL-N<br />

In South America, PAL variants PAL-M and PAL-N are<br />

used, as introduced on page 96. The gratuitous parameter<br />

differences introduced by these systems have no<br />

technical merit; they have deterred image exchange and<br />

equipment commonality, and they have given many<br />

headaches to system designers. Today there is no<br />

production equipment for these standards: Production<br />

is accomplished using 480i or 576i equipment operating<br />

in the appropriate raster standard; the signal is<br />

transcoded to PAL-M or PAL-N prior to transmission.<br />

CHAPTER 48 ANALOG NTSC AND PAL BROADCAST STANDARDS 575

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