""Pearl Harbor"" DVD To Feature Dolby Headphone Track

12-Nov-01

DolbyÆ Laboratories announced that the upcoming DVD release (December 4, 2001) of Touchstone Pictures' ""Pearl Harbor,"" from producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Michael Bay, will feature a special, limited-edition Dolby Headphone bonus track. The Dolby Headphone track will allow movie viewers to enjoy the multichannel audio experience of ""Pearl Harbor""'s 5.1-channel soundtrack over any pair of regular stereo headphones using any DVD player or receiver with a headphone jack. ""Pearl Harbor"" will be the first-ever DVD release to feature a Dolby Headphone soundtrack.""We are delighted that Michael Bay and Touchstone Pictures chose to create a Dolby Headphone track for the DVD release of 'Pearl Harbor,'"" said John Kellogg, General Manager, Multichannel Audio and Music Production, Dolby Laboratories. ""Its spectacular 5.1 soundtrack makes 'Pearl Harbor' a perfect film to showcase the capabilities of Dolby Headphone technology. Dolby Headphone is the perfect solution for situations such as late-night movie watching and traveling, as well as for people who don't yet have 5.1 theatre systems,"" Kellogg added.""I am proud to be the first director to employ this awesome technology on DVD. The Dolby Headphone track portrays the multichannel soundtrack as it was meant to be heard,"" said Michael Bay. Through its powerful signal-processing algorithm, Dolby Headphone generates a host of audio clues modeled from real life, from which the listener's ears and brain derive a truly three-dimensional sound image. Stereo content sounds richer and more spacious, as if it were being played over two speakers in a room. Multichannel audio programming is presented as if the listener is surrounded by a five-speaker home theatre setup.""With this new release, millions of movie fans will be able to experience Dolby Headphone multichannel audio through their regular headphones,"" said Brent Butterworth, Director of Marketing, Consumer Technologies, Dolby Laboratories. ""Soon we will see many consumer electronics products with Dolby Headphone processing built in, which will allow listeners to enjoy surround sound from any 5.1-channel source over any set of headphones.""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, AAC and MPEG. Developed by Lake Technology and Dolby Laboratories, Dolby Headphone has already found its way into millions of computing products, including desktop and laptop computers as well as DVD playback software. The technology is also being licensed by Dolby to consumer electronics manufacturers for use 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, portable stereos, game consoles, A/V surround decoders and receivers, auto sound systems, and multimedia speaker systems.For a list of current Dolby Headphone products currently available, visit www.dolby.com/dolbyheadphone/DH_Products.html. For more information about Dolby Headphone, visit www.dolby.com/dolbyheadphone.

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