DolbyÆ Headphone Featured At CEDIA Expo 2000

7-Jul-00

DolbyÆ Laboratories will demonstrate its Dolby Headphone technology September 6-10 at CEDIA Expo 2000 in Indianapolis, Indiana (Booth #916). The new technology delivers the experience of multichannel sound through any standard pair of stereo headphones.""We expect this technology to make a big impact on the home theater and home multichannel audio industry,"" said Dennis Staats, Manager of Technical Marketing for Dolby Laboratories. ""Users can experience full multichannel sound no matter where they are, without having to make any special adjustments to their systems.""Listeners can enjoy Dolby Headphone in stereo with program sources such as MiniDiscs, CDs, and MP3 files, and in surround sound with most multichannel program sources, including Dolby Surround, Dolby Digital, PCM, MLP-packed PCM, and MPEG. Developed by Lake Technology and Dolby Laboratories, the technology is being licensed by Dolby to consumer electronics manufacturers to include in almost any product that provides a stereo headphone jack. Such products include digital cable and satellite set-top boxes, VCRs, DVD-Video and DVD-Audio players, conventional and digital TV receivers, personal and laptop computers, portable stereos, game consoles, A/V surround decoders and receivers, auto sound systems, and multimedia speaker systems.""We are very excited to show this technology at the CEDIA show,"" added Staats. ""It is a perfect technology to accompany the rapidly growing field of custom home electronics installation.""About Dolby HeadphoneDolby Headphone is a unique signal processing system that enables conventional stereo headphones to realistically portray the sound of a five-speaker playback system. Dolby Headphoneís room modeling algorithm is performed by a digital signal processing system developed by Lake Technology. This makes the technology easy to incorporate into virtually any type of audio or video product that features a headphone output.Multichannel products that incorporate Dolby Headphone to simulate multispeaker surround playback, such as those equipped with Dolby Digital 5.1-channel and/or four-channel Dolby Pro LogicÆ Surround decoding, display the Dolby Headphone symbol on the unit or one of its controls. These products also apply the Dolby Headphone process to stereo programs. Stereo equipment that provides Dolby Headphone to emulate only the two-speaker listening experience is identified with the Dolby Headphone Stereo symbol.About Dolby LaboratoriesDolby Laboratories is the developer of signal processing 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 also has offices in New York, Los Angeles, Shanghai, Beijing, and Tokyo.

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