Tag Archives: audio

According to a new mid-year report from trusted market monitor BuzzAngle, US single track download sales fell by a whopping 24.2% in the first half of 2016 compared to the same per... More

Can listeners really hear the differences between standard and high resolution audio formats? A new study arriving soon from Queen Mary University of London thinks so, though the r... More

What happens when a technology gets as good as it can? It’s an interesting question, and not necessarily as far-fetched or ill-timed as you may imagine. Consider the world of dig... More

NEW YORK — High-resolution audio offers significant opportunities for the music industry and CE manufacturers, but if it’s going to really take off, there’s going to have to ... More

The Dalian theater, which opens with the movie “Warcraft,” is the first of its kind for San Francisco’s Dolby Laboratories in the rapidly growing Chinese movie market. Others... More

Dolby Labs and Lionsgate have announced they are partnering to release a slate of Lionsgate new release and catalog titles mastered in Dolby Vision and mixed in Dolby Atmos to offe... More

Telefónica has incorporated Dolby Digital PlusTM into its Movistar+ television services. For the first time, users of the service will be able to enjoy crystal-clear surround soun... More

Sony will bring high-resolution audio to trade shows and consumer events in a partnership with home and car audio installation company Whitledge Designs, which has added Sony’s i... More

The very existence of this single market rests on the Country of Origin principle, i.e. the fact that a company only has to apply the law of its Member State of establishment when ... More

Ministry of Sound in Elephant and Castle is the first nightclub in the world to be kitted out with Dolby's Atmos sound system. Musicians describe it as the audio equivalent of goin... More

Since the introduction of connected music systems, the market, in general, has struggled to generate momentum. These connected music systems include Internet-connected A/V receiver... More

It's the cynical view of the American dream: the ability to control everything in a home without ever getting up from the recliner -- or even, God forbid, lifting a finger. This is... More

A wide-scale study of online trackers carried out by researchers at Princeton University has identified a new technique being used to try to strip web users of their privacy, as we... More

Facebook might be hosting upwards of 8 billion views per day on its platform, but a wide majority of that viewership is happening in silence. As much as 85 percent of video views h... More

Virtual-reality surround sound -- also known as 3D audio, binaural, 5.1 or whatever you want to call it -- never caught on for music. Surround sound that goes hand-in-hand with vid... More

Dolby Laboratories announced today the permanent installation of Dolby Atmos® at Cinéma L’Olympia which is used as part of Cannes’ annual Marché du Film. The theater’s new... More

The music industry is extending its Hi-Res Music logo from downloaded songs to streamed songs to help consumers identify high-resolution recordings that meet the high-res music def... More

Warner Music Group became the first major music label to announce plans to support the release of downloadable songs in the high-resolution MQA (Master Quality Authenticated) forma... More

Hollywood’s Dolby Theatre has been host to the Academy Awards for a decade now, but it’s a new theater just over the hill in Los Angeles that has the TV community and Dolby exc... More

Dolby Laboratories announced a deal Wednesday that could boost its little-known telephone conferencing service, Dolby Voice, which uses the company’s audio expertise to greatly e... More