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Tag Archives: audio
Inside Dolby Laboratories, and the Future of Sound and Vision (PC Mag)
Dolby Projects Expansion in China (China Daily)
Dolby Laboratories has teamed up with Chinese brands to target more Chinese consumers－not only in the cinema, but also at home and on the go. Five years ago, the San Francisco-ba... More
Dolby Now Designing Speakers for Laptops (The Verge)
Dolby Labs, the San Francisco-based company best known for Dolby Atmos audio tools and Dolby Vision imaging technology, is now setting its sights on screens that are decidedly much... More
Microsoft Powers a DJ’s Live Show with a Surface Book and Kinects (Engadget)
When it comes to live shows, the visuals are key to making a lasting impression. I'd even argue that what you see is just as important as the quality of the music. It is a performa... More
Dolby Execs: Atmos, Cinema, Vision Growth Gave Company a Q3 Boost (MESA)
The continued growth of Dolby Atmos audio technology and Dolby Vision high dynamic range (HDR) video in homes and theatrically via the Dolby Cinema platform played a major role in ... More
Inside Dolby’s Experiment to Watch People While They’re Watching Movies (The Verge)
Led by neurophysiologist and Dolby chief scientist Poppy Crum, the company has been attaching biosensors to willing subjects and plopping them down on a couch to settle in for an e... More
Smart Speakers Set to Capture 30 Percent of U.S. Audio Market in 2017 (Twice)
Fun fact: Amazon is now the world's largest audio equipment vendor. Thanks to the success of smart speakers with voice personal assistants (VPAs), the audio market has rebounded... More
Smart Speakers are the Future of Audio (Forbes)
With 42% of smart speaker owners saying smart speakers are essential to their everyday lives, the gadget is integrating itself into people’s lives and homes. Videos screened at t... More
Dolby Access is Going to Change the Way You Hear Your Xbox One Games (TechRadar)
Dolby Access might be the best-kept secret of E3 2017. Actually, that distinction belongs to Metroid Prime 4, but nevertheless, it’s a nifty app targeted specifically at Xbox One... More
Podcasts Offer Competition for $33 Billion U.S. Streaming Audio Market (MediaPost)
While the format has been embraced by major media brands and independent hobbyists, U.S. advertisers will spend just $200 million on podcasts this year -- a paltry sum when compare... More
Dolby, Huawei Announce First Dolby Atmos Sound System Enabled Devices (MESA)
Dolby Laboratories and Huawei today announced a new series of MateBook laptops featuring the world’s first Dolby Atmos Sound System, a Dolby designed sound system combining custo... More
The Music Ends for MP3 as Its Developer Discontinues the Once Pioneering Sound Format (Fortune)
The age of the MP3 is officially over. The developer of the early digital audio codec announced this week that it has ended its licensing agreement, ceding to more versatile format... More
Dolby Atmos Moving Audio Ad Debuts with Spotlight Cinema Network (Film Journal)
A new cinema ad for the first-ever Lexus LC 500 luxury coupe will be mixed and released nationwide in Dolby Atmos on May 5 in select theatres affiliated with Spotlight Cinema Netwo... More
Dolby Brings Both the Audio and Visual Awe with Technical Wonder ‘Escape’ (No Film School)
As a part of Tribeca Film Festival's masterclass series, Dolby presented a short film they recently finished in partnership with Moonbot studios. Escape is a spiritual sequel to th... More
The Growth of Bluetooth Audio (Dealerscope)
In the fast-paced consumer technology industry, it can be hard to keep up. We’ve seen the audio industry transition from stiff, wired headphones to wireless Bluetooth earbuds the... More
‘Pirates’ Sequel Preview Gets Dolby Tech Installation (THR)
When Disney screens Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales on Tuesday at CinemaCon, theater owners will be treated to Dolby Vision high dynamic range imagery and Dolby At... More
Dolby Announces Audio, Imaging Products for the Cinema (MESA)
Dolby today announced a full spectrum of integrated solutions that will save exhibitors of all sizes both time and money while delivering audiences an experience they can trust fro... More
NAB Show to Tackle Next-Gen TV Audio (TV News Check)
Like TV broadcasters themselves, audio for television at the 2017 NAB Show will find itself with one foot planted in a present where the issues of audio over IP and the allocation ... More
Western Digital’s HGST Archives One of the World’s Largest Collections of Live Jazz Music (MESA)
Western Digital announced that the HGST Active Archive System is enabling the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) to archive more than 17,000 hours’ worth of live ... More
Spotify is Preparing to Launch a Hi-Fi Music Tier (The Verge)
Spotify is preparing to launch a lossless audio version of its streaming service, according to multiple sources. The offering, which is currently called Spotify Hi-Fi, will offer l... More