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FEATURE/Dolby Laboratories Launches The Dolby Store On-Line; Exciting Dolby Merchandise Available to the Public for the First Time.


SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE FEATURES)--April 20, 1999--

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.
, the world leader in multichannel Using two or more paths for transmission or processing. It can refer to a variety of architectures including (1) multiple I/O channels between the CPU and peripheral devices, (2) multiple wires in a cable, (3) multiple "logical" channels within a single wire or fiber or (4) multiple  sound, today announced the opening of The Dolby Store, which will offer Dolby merchandise for the first time ever. Located at the company's web site, www.dolby.com, The Dolby Store gives consumers, retailers, and Dolby licensees the opportunity to purchase products including posters, T-shirts, how-to guides, and demonstration and test discs.

"We developed the on-line store to meet the increasing public demand for Dolby merchandise," said Mina Millett, Vice President, Chief Information Officer at Dolby Laboratories. "The products offered at The Dolby Store allow our customers to be a part of the thirty-five-year tradition of high-quality sound that is Dolby's hallmark."

Now available to consumers are some of the most frequently requested items including a selection of Dolby movie posters, the Consumer Guide to 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.  video tape, DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc.
DVD
 in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc

Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology.
 Spectacular (the first audio-only 5.1-channel DVD with complete musical selections), Dolby Digital T-shirts, badge pins and luggage tags, as well as Dolby rain jackets, mousepads, and lapel pins. Coming soon to the consumer section are Dolby Digital baseball caps and Dolby Digital home theater wall plaques.

The retailer/licensee section offers various Dolby Surround Pro Logic and Dolby Digital logo banners, demonstration and test discs for Dolby DVD and Dolby Digital, and Dolby Technologies: How They Work on video tape and laser disc.

Customers can purchase items from The Dolby Store by telephone twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, at 800-983-6529 (toll-free in the U.S. or Canada) or 510-583-6878 (outside the U.S. and Canada). Fax and mail orders are also accepted. A secure on-line ordering form will be available in the near future.

About Dolby

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, on consumer audio and video entertainment software, and in professional sound applications that include 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 headquartered 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, Tokyo and Shanghai, and European headquarters in England.
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