Butterworth, Staats to Dolby As Directors of Tech Marketing.Business/Technology Editors SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 18, 2000 Dolby Laboratories “Dolby” redirects here. For other uses, see Dolby (disambiguation). Dolby Laboratories, Inc. (Dolby Labs) (NYSE: DLB) is a USA-based company specializing in audio compression and reproduction. has hired Brent Butterworth as Director, Consumer Technology Marketing, and has also promoted Dennis Staats to Director, Computer & Games Technology Marketing, both for its Consumer Division, effective immediately. In their new positions, Butterworth and Staats will respond to and help nurture the dramatic growth in the use of Dolby Digital A digital audio encoding system from Dolby used in movie and home theaters. First used in 1995, Dolby Digital employs Dolby's AC-3 (Audio Coding-3) coding and compression technology and is the standard for DVD-Video and HDTV. 5. in both the consumer and computer markets. Both Technology Marketing Directors will report directly to Richard Hockenbrock, General Manager, Licensing Services, Consumer Division. Mr. Hockenbrock said, "Brent's vast experience in the consumer electronics space combined with Dennis's invaluable knowledge of Dolby technologies and operations creates a winning team for us in technical marketing. We're excited to benefit from Brent's expertise and equally pleased to promote Dennis to this well-deserved position." Mr. Butterworth will lead Dolby's efforts to influence expansion in the consumer and broadcast markets. Most recently, he served as Editor-in-Chief of etown.com, the word's largest consumer electronics website. Before that, he was Editorial Director of Home Theater An audio/video entertainment center that has a large-screen TV and hi-fi system with three speakers in the front (left, right and center) and left and right speakers in the rear. Starting in the early 1990s, video inputs were added to stereo receivers and preamplifiers. Magazine for four years, head of the team responsible for making that publication the leader in its industry. Prior to that, Mr. Butterworth worked for publications including Video, Spin, Windows Sources Windows Sources was a magazine by ZDNet. It lasted from c. 1993 – c. 2001. Staff Patrick Norton ran the hardware reviews section. Carlos Carrillo was the Assistant Editor and ran the Shareware reviews section. , and other magazines. Mr. Staats will work closely with Dolby's Games Initiative Group to promote Dolby technologies into new game and computer platforms. He has been with Dolby for more than 15 years, most recently as Manager, Technical Marketing, which included licensing trade show promotions, customer relations, and public speaking. Mr. Staats has also held several other positions at Dolby, including Software Licensing Manager and Tape Duplication Manager. About Dolby Laboratories Dolby Laboratories is the developer of signal processing See DSP. systems used worldwide in applications that include motion picture sound, consumer entertainment products and media, broadcasting, and music recording. Based in San Francisco with European headquarters in England, the privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. also has offices in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , Los Angeles, Shanghai, Beijing, and Tokyo. |
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