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Dolby Sounds Out Wireless Market
News Beatnik, the music company founded by musician Thomas Dolby Robertson, stepped into the wireless fray Tuesday by signing deals with Texas Instruments and a major chip manufacturer. The Beatnik audio engine, which is already used by wired Web sites...
[February 27, 2001, 13:03]
The Evolution Of Dolby Film Sound
White Papers Going to the movies today is more exciting and involving than ever before, thanks in large part to a continuing effort to improve film sound undertaken by Dolby Laboratories in the early 1970s. Indeed, the history of cinema sound over the past two...
[November 3, 2003, 23:00]
AOL Hands RealNetworks Job To Dolby AAC
News AOL plans to use Dolby Laboratories' streaming audio technology in its Internet radio products, swapping out software from the service's former provider, RealNetworks. As previously reported, AOL has been planning the switch to Dolby AAC (Advanced...
[May 29, 2003, 12:04]
AOL Swaps Real For Dolby
News America Online is expected to announce that it will replace RealNetworks with Dolby as the default audio streaming technology for its narrowband Net radio service, according to Dolby. AOL will swap RealNetworks' audio streaming technology with...
[March 25, 2003, 12:47]
Audio Innovator Increases Value Of Information Assets With Enterprise Licensing
White Papers Since the 1960s, Dolby Laboratories has set the standard for high-quality audio systems. As Dolby grew, so did the volume of information that it collected. Dolby also wanted to reduce the number of different vendor solutions that it had to support.
[February 19, 2008, 23:00]
Nuggets: Like Music To Your Ears...
News But upgrading Dolby Pro Logic systems to Dolby Digital can be a painfully expensive experience. In steps VideoLogic with a rather more affordable option -- the DigiTheatre Dolby Digital (AC-3) decoder.
[July 27, 1999, 11:16]
Nuggets: DVD Can Sound Great Too...
News However, to really get the full effect you feel you need Dolby Digital sound. The DigiTheatre provides full AC3/Dolby Decoding and output from a single system, including 6 speakers (2 rear, 1 front, 1 centre, 1 subwoofer) and a separate AC3/Dolby...
[March 31, 1999, 16:26]
Nuggets: 3D Sound Wizardry From Teac Speakers
News For £199 (including VAT) you'll get five satellite speakers to position around your room, plus a Dolby Digital amplifier and subwoofer. Supports Dolby Digital encoding, A3D and EAX Looking for some top-quality speakers?
[October 26, 2000, 8:16]
Comdex: Flat, Flat, The World Is Flat...
News Top of the range is the $199 AudioStorm MT7 D/X 5.1 Dolby Digital Multimedia Theatre Speaker System with Dolby Digital decoder (6 channels) 12 Watt Subwoofer, 3 Watt centre speaker, four 3 Watt flat panel speakers and an amplifier.
[November 18, 1998, 5:32]
Sony Unveils New Year DVD Lineup
News It also boasts built-in Dolby Digital decoding. As well as a combination DVD/CD player it features an AM/FM receiver and Dolby Digital and dts decoding. This week's Consumer Electronics show in Las Vegas has seen Sony announce a whole raft of new...
[January 7, 2000, 6:25]
Nuggets: DVD On The Beach
News The player has built-in Virtual Dolby Surround Sound (turn it on, check it out, it's really rather good) to give you a sort-of surround sound experience. If you want to use it as your main home DVD player as well, there are Dolby Digital, MPEG2 and...
[February 7, 2000, 13:45]
Nuggets: Samsung's DVD Hybrid
News Features of the DVD machine itself include a zoom function to focus in on areas around the screen, a Dolby Pro-Logic sound processor, an eight-way equaliser, Super Bass Sound and Power Sound. You can also link the player to an external decoder via...
[August 26, 1999, 15:33]
Yet More DVD To Go From Panasonic
News There's a seven-inch diagonal LCD screen, built-in Dolby Digital and dts decoders and built-in stereo speakers. For $400 less you only get a 5-inch screen and there are no Dolby Digital or dts decoders built-in.
[January 7, 2000, 11:59]
NVidia Brings Xbox Technology To The PC
News The MCP comprises a Direct 8.0-compatible audio processing unit -- also used in Microsoft's forthcoming Xbox -- whose standout feature is a Dolby Digital Interactive Content Encoder that encodes multi-channel audio into Dolby Digital 5.1 surround...
[June 5, 2001, 8:34]
BeOS Adding USB, Pentium III Support
News At the conference, Be partners also showed off new software designed to run on the platform, and musician Thomas Dolby made an appearance. Be will be helping Dolby's company improve its Beatnik sound engine.
[April 12, 1999, 7:52]
Future Of Digital Music Up For Grabs
News Home theatre aficionados may want music files that play in 5.1 Dolby surround sound, requiring a Dolby codec, continued Jennings. Microsoft Corp.and Dolby Laboratories have put forward their own technologies to replace MP3.
[July 21, 1999, 9:08]
Rupert Goodwins' IDF Diary
Blog Thomas Dolby — of She Blinded Me With Science and many other, much finer yet less well known 80s pop tunes — is kicking off his first tour for many years, and he's starting in the intimate (OK, tiny and crowded) settings of the Mighty club, under...
[March 20, 2006, 12:00]
Intel Homes In On Entertainment
News He also said that Intel and Dolby Labs had signed an agreement to link Dolby's PC entertainment standard with Intel's high definition audio, and that only PCs so equipped would be able to display the Dolby logo.
[September 9, 2004, 10:35]
US Report: Diamond To Release MP3 Walkman - Music Industry Unhappy
News Liquid Audio's technology is based on Dolby's MPEG2 AAC compression, which Fellers claims "sounds better and is 30 percent smaller" than MP3. MP3 is an issue of piracy," said Matt Fellers, a project engineer at Dolby Laboratories Inc.
[September 14, 1998, 9:36]
A Year Ago: Diamond To Release MP3 Walkman
News MP3 is an issue of piracy," said Matt Fellers, a project engineer at Dolby Laboratories Inc. Liquid Audio's technology is based on Dolby's MPEG2 AAC compression, which Fellers claims "sounds better and is 30 percent smaller" than MP3.
[September 14, 1999, 7:00]
