DolbyÆ Digital Technology Now In Over Ten Million Digital TV And Digital Cable Set-Top Boxes

25-Jul-00

DolbyÆ Laboratories has announced that over ten million digital TV set-top boxes incorporating Dolby Digital technology have been sold worldwide. This milestone illustrates Dolby Digitalís influence on the consumer audio industry since its introduction to the market in 1995. ""We are very proud to reach this huge milestone in the consumer audio market,"" said David Robinson, Senior Vice President, Technology, Dolby Laboratories. ""Dolby Digital has made an enormous improvement in the quality of audio that listeners experience in the home. The number of set-top boxes sold with Dolby Digital decoders indicates the appreciation consumers have for great sound.""Television programming is becoming increasingly reliant on Dolby Digital 5.1 multichannel sound to create a cinema-like experience right in the viewerís home. As more networks and cable systems begin to broadcast in Dolby Digital, following the lead of ABC, HBO, STARZ!, Showtime, DIRECTVÆ and DISH Network, the number of set-top boxes with Dolby Digital technology will continue to rise.With the sales of set-top boxes incorporating Dolby Digital reaching this important milestone, the total number of products sold with Dolby Digital technology is now over 57 million.About Dolby DigitalDolby Digital, Dolby Laboratoriesí 5.l-channel discrete audio encoding/decoding technology, has become the sound standard for virtually every new digital consumer format, including Digital Versatile Disc (DVD), digital cable and digital broadcast television. It is also quickly becoming the standard for direct broadcast satellite (DBS). Dolby Digital sound technology allows six discrete channels of audio to be stored or transported with a lower data rate than a single channel of pulse code modulation (PCM) audio found on traditional compact discs. As Dolby Digital combines high-quality multichannel sound with extraordinary spectrum efficiency, itís no surprise that more than 57 million products incorporating Dolby Digital are in consumer use today.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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