Loudness FAQ: General

Which parties support EBU R 128 in products?


We are aware of the following 50 parties supporting EBU R 128 in product(s).*

 

AccepTV 

Agama 

Appear TV 

Audiocation 

Axon 

Cobalt Digital

CRC

Cube-Tec International

Digimetrics

DHD

DK-Technologies

Dolby

Dorrough

DVBControl
Emotion Systems

Eyeheight

Flux

Interra Systems

Grimm Audio

Harris

Hindenburg Systems

ITNM Systems

JocLoudness

Jünger Audio-Studiotechnik

Lawo

Linear Acoustic

Magix

Merging Technologies

Minnetonka Audio

Miranda  

NUGEN Audio

Omnitek

Orban  

Pinguin  

Qualis Audio  

R128GAIN 

RTW  

Sonoris 

Stagetec  

TAG video systems 

TC Electronic  

Tektronix  

ToneBoosters

Toyo Corporation

Trinnov 

Venera Technologies

Vidcheck

Volicon

Wohler

zplane

 

* Disclaimer
Above list of parties providing EBU R 128 products is based on information provided by these organisations themselves, such as publicly available product specifications. Please note that the EBU does NOT verify conformance of the product implementations. Inclusion in the list also does NOT mean the EBU recommends the vendor or its product(s). Users should verify the suitability of any product themselves.

Additions / corrections

If you are a vendor supporting EBU R 128 in your product(s) and would like to be added, send us an e-mail via: tech@ebu.ch

Likewise, if you spot an error in the list, please let us know via tech@ebu.ch too.

 

  

What exactly does the abbreviation PLOUD stand for?


This abbreviation is based on the EBU TECHNICAL working structure at the time of creation of the PLOUD Group. The P originally referred to "Production", as the Group was managed by the Production Management Committee. The LOUD part should be obvious :)

 

Back then the exact spelling was P/LOUD. After a reorganisation of the EBU's work, the slashes were dropped, but for PLOUD the P was kept - as the name was so well-known already. You could regard it to stand for "Project", or as some have proposed, for "Practical", because the Group has a strong focus on providing solutions for practical use.

Different standards?

In this one minute video Andrew Mason (chair of the EBU Expert Community on Audio) explains why the Loudness standards around the world are more similar than you may think.

 

 YouTube version here