Appendix A: Characteristics
TSG 601 User Manual 31Table 5: Character Identification Characteristic Information
Characters Displayed Two lines of up to 16 Characters per line
Display Position Moveable over the Safe Action area of the field.
Character Amplitude Black, 70 mV equivalent
White, 630 mV equivalent
Table 6: Signal Characteristics for Embedded Serial Audio Characteristic Performance
Requirements Supplemental Information
Standards Conformance SMPTE 259M, SMPTE 272M,
and SMPTE 125M
Encoding Format Linear PCM, two’s complement
binary representation
Audio Sampling
Frequency 48.00 kHz, locked to video
Audio Channels Four channels at a time
(max). (Two AES/EBU
pairs; one pair may be
disabled at a time.)
Four groups with four channels
per group. Only one group may
be selected at a time.
Quantized Resolution 20 bits
Audio Tone Frequency User selectable for each channel:
50 Hz, 100 Hz, 150 Hz, 200 Hz,
250 Hz, 300 Hz, 400 Hz, 500 Hz,
600 Hz, 750 Hz, 800 Hz, 1 kHz,
1.2 kHz, 1.5 kHz, 1.6 kHz, 2 kHz,
2.4 kHz, 3 kHz, 3.2 kHz, 4 kHz,
4.8 kHz, 6 kHz, 8 kHz, 9.6 kHz,
12 kHz, 16 kHz, and mute.
Audio Tone Amplitude User selectable for each channel,
from 0dB FS to –20 dB FS, in 1.0
dB increments.
Pre–emphasis None implemented in data.
Channel Status Bits Uses default settings except that
Source ID bits may be set to
identify each channel with a fixed
code. See Table 7
Audio Sample Distribution 525 – See Table 8
625 – See Table 9