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IEC 60958-3 Edition 3.0 2015-06 INTER NA TIONA L STA NDA R D Digital audio interface Part 3:Consumer applications IEC 60958-3:2006-05/A MD2:2015-06(en)AMENDMENT 2 Copyright International Electrotechnical Commission THIS PUBLICATION IS COPYRIGHT PROTECTED Copyright 2015 IEC,Geneva,Switzerland All r ights r eserved.Unless otherwise specif ied,no par t of this publication may be reproduced or utilized in any f orm or by any means,electr onic or mechanical,including photocopying and microfilm,without per mission in writing from either IEC or IECs member National Committee in the country of the requester.If you have any questions about IEC copyright or have an enquiry about obtaining additional rights to this publication,please contact the address below or your local IEC member National Committee f or fur ther information.IEC Central Office Tel.:+41 22 919 02 11 3,r ue de Varemb Fax:+41 22 919 03 00 CH-1211 Geneva 20 infoiec.ch Switzer land www.iec.ch About the IEC The Inter national Electrotechnical Commission(IEC)is the leading global organization that prepares and publishes International Standar ds f or all electr ical,electronic and related technologies.About IEC publications The technical content of IEC publications is kept under constant review by the IEC.Please make sur e that you have the latest edition,a corrigenda or an amendment might have been published.IEC Catalogue-webstore.iec.ch/cat alogue The stand-alone application for consulting the entir e bibliographical information on IEC International Standards,Technical Specifications,Technical Reports and other documents.A vailable for PC,Mac OS,A ndroid Tablets and iPad.IEC publicat ions search-www.iec.ch/searchpub The advanced search enables to find IEC publications by a variety of criteria(reference number,text,technical committee,).It also gives information on projects,replaced and withdraw n publications.IEC Just Published-webstore.iec.ch/just published Stay up to date on all new IEC publications.Just Published details all new publications released.A vailable online and also once a month by email.Electropedia-www.electropedia.org The worlds leading online dictionar y of electronic and electrical terms containing more than 30 000 terms and definitions in English and French,with equivalent terms in 15 additional languages.A lso k now n as the International Electrotechnical V ocabular y (IEV)online.IEC Glossar y -st d.iec.ch/glossary More than 60 000 electrotechnical terminology entries in English and French extracted from the Terms and Definitions clause of IEC publications issued since 2002.Some entries have been collected from earlier publications of IEC TC 37,77,86 and CISPR.IEC Cust omer Service Centre-webst ore.iec.ch/csc If you wish to give us y our feedback on this publication or need fur ther assistance,please contact the Customer Service Centre:csciec.ch.Copyright International Electrotechnical Commission IEC 60958-3 Edition 3.0 2015-06 INTERNA TIONA L STA NDA R D Digital audio interface Part 3:Consumer applications INTER NA TIONAL ELECTROTECHNICAL COMMISSION ICS 33.160.01 ISBN 978-2-8322-2680-3 Registered t rademark of t he Int ernational Electrot echnical Commission W arning!Make sure that you obtained this publication from an authorized distributor.AMENDMENT 2 Copyright International Electrotechnical Commission 2 IEC 60958-3:2006/AMD2:2015 IEC 2015 FOREWORD This amendment has been prepared by technical area 4:Digital system interf aces and protocols of IEC technical committee 100:Audio,video and multimedia systems and equipment.The text of this amendment is based on the f ollowing documents:FDIS Report on voting 100/2464/FDIS 100/2494/RVD Full inf ormation on the voting f or the approval of this amendment can be f ound in the report on voting indicated in the above table.The committee has decided that the contents of this amendment and the base publication will remain unchanged until the stability date indicated on the IEC web site under http:/webstore.iec.ch in the data related to the specif ic publication.At this date,the publication will be reconf irmed,withdrawn,replaced by a revised edition,or amended.A bilingual version of this publication may be issued at a later date._ _ _ _ _ INTRODUCTION to Amendment 2 The revision of IEC 60958-3:2006 has become necessary to document the protocol f or transmitting the audio signal and its inf ormation in current improved audio f ormats and systems.To apply IEC 60958-3 and its IEC 60958 conf ormant data f ormat transmitting as part or whole of the multichannel audio data,a general channel assignment number specif ied in IEC 62574 is added to the C-bit.Loudness inf ormation is added to the U-bit to enable loudness control.Copyright International Electrotechnical Commission IEC 60958-3:2006/AMD2:2015 3 IEC 2015 2 Normative ref erences Insert,i n the list of normat ive references,t he following new publicat ion:IEC 62574:2011,Aud i o,vid eo and mult i med i a systems General channel assi gnment of m