DolbyÆ Laboratories Demonstrates Dolby Headphone At 2000 Festival Du Son Et De L'Image
DolbyÆ Laboratories will demonstrate its new Dolby Headphone technology for the first time in Canada at the 2000 Festival du Son et de l'Image, in Montreal on March 24-26, 2000. The demonstrations of this exciting virtual headphone breakthrough immediately follow the announcements of Dolby Headphone's first consumer electronics licensee (Hitachi) as well as the latest in-flight licensee, Qantas Airlines. Dolby Headphone's unique signal-processing system enables standard stereo headphones to realistically portray the sound of a 5.1-channel playback system. The process models the acoustics of a room, so that the listener perceives the sound as if it were coming from speakers in an actual room. ""This technology is in the audio stream, rather than in the headphone itself,"" says Roger Dressler, Director of Technology Strategy at Dolby, ""which means listeners can use headphones they already own to experience programs in the full multichannel sound they expect to hear in a cinema or a fine home theatre."" Dolby Headphone works with both multichannel and stereo audio signals. With multichannel audio, the effect of listening to surround sound through loudspeakers is created with the process. 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, whether they are encoded in Dolby Surround, Dolby Digital, PCM, MLP-formatted PCM, or MPEG. During the demos, Dolby will play various audio clips, including ""Voices,"" excerpted from Dolby's new DVD, ""We've Got The Whole World Listening,"" as well as segments from a major motion picture and a music video recorded in 5.1-channel sound. The demos will take place in the Mt. Everest Room of the Four Points Hotel in Montreal. About Dolby Laboratories Dolby 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, California with European headquarters in England, the privately held company also has offices in New York, New York; Los Angeles, California; Shanghai and Tokyo.