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APEX Specification 0403: Digital Content Delivery Methodology for Airline Inflight Entertainment Systems. (Version 1.3 April 2012)
APEX Specification 0403: HD draft specification
Specification was approved by the membership at the November 2012 TC Meeting and was approved by the Board approval at the June 2012 Board Meeting via teleconference. Specification is to be viewed as guidelines; adherence is not mandatory.
APEX Specification 0403: Digital Content Delivery Methodology for Airline Inflight Entertainment Systems. (Version 1.2 November 2010)
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Watermarking Best Practices document that was approved by the membership at the November 2010 TC Meeting and by the Board at the January 2011 Board Meeting.
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APEX Response to DoT's Proposed Rules on Captioning
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WGBH National Center for Accessible Media Response
Download this response in PDF format: Comments on Proposed Amendments to Rules Implementing the Air Carrier Access Act
APEX Specification 0403: Digital Content Delivery Methodology for Airline Inflight Entertainment Systems. (Version 1.1 - 24 February 2009)
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APEX Specification 1289-2: Specification for Mastertape Recording, Tape Duplication, Compact Disc Replication, and Digital Encoding for Airborne Audio Entertainment Systems (Revision 3 - January 20, 2005)
This document outlines standards for recording program masters and tape duplicating for all cassette formats, as well as guidelines and specifications for mastering and replicating airline-format compact discs. It also provides the minimum and maximum bitrate standards for audio encoding using the MPEG 1 algorithm for Layers 1, 2, and 3.
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APEX Specification 1289-1: General Requirements For Recording And Duplicating Of Airborne Video Software (Revision 2 - January 2004)
The purpose of this document is to define required procedures and parameters for generation of Airborne Video masters on one inch Type "C" which can be used ultimately by the duplicating laboratories for dubbing down to a video cassette format (Beta, VHS, Video 8, ED Beta, SVHS, High Band Video 8, etc.)
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APEX Specification 0395: Content Delivery for Inflight Entertainment (Version 2.0 - November 6, 2001)
This specification identifies and standardizes several aspects of source media, digitization, compression and encoding, encryption, duplication and distribution media. Much of this specification comprises references to other international and industry specifications with parameterizations for the specific needs of the IFE industry.
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APEX Specification 0598: DVD Delivery For Inflight Entertainment (Version 1.0 - January 24, 2001)
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