DTS To Service As A Sponsor For The Large Format Cinema Associationís 1999 Conference & Large Format Film Festival
Maintaining its position as the leading provider of top-quality digital sound for the large format film industry, Digital Theater Systems (DTS) will again officially sponsor the 1999 Large Format Cinema Associationís Conference & Large Format Film Festival to be held in Los Angeles form May 19-21. DTS has been a long-time sponsor in all LFCA shows to date. This year, DTS has been chosen as the digital sound provider for the 8/70 2-D and 3-D film festival scheduled to be held on Friday, May 21 at the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. Also during the Friday festival, DTS will be featured on three films, ""Olympic Glory"" from Megasystems, ""Wolves"" form Primesco Communications and ""Encounter In The Third Dimension"" from nWave and iWerks. The festival will bring top members of the large format community together in an effort to generate a greater awareness for large-screen formats, as well as provide a forum for sharing information and to foster growth of the industry. Last Yearís conference, also held in Los Angeles, played host to 341 professionals from 11 different countries. This yearís festival, to be held at the Egyptian Theatre, the California Science Center and the Academy of Arts and Sciences, will pay tribute to Lester Novros, a seminal figure in the large format industry for having founded Graphic Films Corporation, a company that has been dedicated to the production of large format and special venue films for nearly 60 years. ""DTS continues to be the cutting edge sound technology for large-format films. As the only sound technology that can provide a digital experience on all film formats from8mm to 70mm, our goal is to make the sound behind this theatre-going experience as big as the picture is,"" noted Bill Hunter, DTS Director of Special Venue Operations. ""DTS is serving as a sponsor to help support, not only LFCA, but the industry as a whole and to aid the development of the format into the next century."" DTS was launched with the release of Universal Picturesí and Amblin Entertainmentís ""Jurassic Park,"" and since then the company has remained a leader in feature film digital audio with approximately 16,600 installations worldwide. DTS Consumer Products, Inc, (a subsidiary of DTS, Inc.) is now licensing its technology to hardware and software manufacturers to create Digital Surround products for the home and car that are changing the way consumers listen to music recordings and movie soundtracks on compact discs, LaserDiscs and DVDs. For more information, visit the DTS Website at www.dtsonline.com.