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Dolby Laboratories And Warner Home Video Donate 12 DVD Titles To Astronauts For In-Space Viewing

Next NASA Space Voyage May Include First Multichannel Audio Playback Outside Earth's Atmosphere

12-Mar-01

Dolby Laboratories and Warner Home Video provided NASA with 12 new DVD titles encoded in Dolby Digital 5.1 for our astronauts' in-flight entertainment during voyages to the International Space Station. ""More and more airplane passengers are watching their favorite movies on DVD in Dolby Digital sound,"" said Bill Jasper, President, Dolby Laboratories. ""We figured these astronauts, who have a much longer voyage than the typical traveler, could use some high quality, multichannel audio-encoded in-flight entertainment as well."" The titles that have been donated include ""Space Cowboys,"" ""2001: A Space Odyssey,"" ""Contact,"" ""Space Jam,"" ""The Matrix,"" ""The Green Mile,"" ""Blazing Saddles,"" ""Ben-Hur,"" ""Casablanca,"" ""The Wizard Of Oz,"" ""Analyze This,"" and ""The Whole Nine Yards.""

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