Dolby Laboratories Awarded Second Consecutive Emmy.NEW YORK--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--Oct. 11, 1999-- The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciencey shares this award with Matsushita, Philips, Sxtremely pleased that the National Academy of TeTechnology Strategy. "Dolby Digital technology y Chairman Ray Dolby received an Emmy Award in was awarded for Dolby Laboratories' "pioneering development of a multichannel, digital audio, bit rate reduction system, standardized for the ATSC (Advanced Television Systems Committee) An international digital television (DTV) standard adopted by the U.S., Canada, South Korea, Taiwan and Argentina. high-definition and standard-defintion television systems, and for worldwide Digital Versatile Disc digital versatile disc or digital video disc (DVD), a small plastic disc used for the storage of digital data. The successor media to the compact disc (CD), a DVD can have as much as 26 times the storage capacity of a CD. ." About Dolby Digital Dolby Digital was introduced in 1992 for cinema sound. Due to its unique combination of high audio quality, low data rate and flexibility, it has since become the standard audio format for DVD-Video discs worldwide, and the audio standard for ATSC digital broadcast TV and SCTE SCTE Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers SCTE Society of Cable Television Engineers SCTE Serial Clock Transmit External digital cable TV. With new recordable DVD formats, Dolby Digital makes it possible for consumers to record near-CD-quality audio in only one-tenth the space required by the audio coding used on CDs themselves. About Dolby Laboratories Dolby Laboratories is the developer of audio signal processing Audio signal processing, sometimes referred to as audio processing, is the processing of a representation of auditory signals, or sound. The representation can be digital or analog. systems used worldwide in consumer audio and video products, consumer audio and video entertainment media, and professional sound applications including music recording, broadcasting and motion-picture sound. 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. is based in San Francisco, with 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, Tokyo, and has European headquarters in England. Note to Editors: Dolby and the double-D symbol are trademarks of Dolby Laboratories. |
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