Tag archive: Dolby

Today at CES rap artist and actor LL Cool J debuted his new music recording platform called Boomdizzle, which aims to make collaboration between musicians easier than ever before. We were able to attend a private press conference with him at the Dolby booth where he explained his vision behind the upcoming platform and demoed a track that had been recorded earlier in the day using the software. Founded by LL Cool J, Boomdizzle is a platform that… Read More

Dolby Laboratories has filed suit against Canada's Research in Motion in Germany and the United States, claiming the company's BlackBerry and PlayBook products infringe on Dolby patents included in the High Efficiency Advanced Audio Coding (“HE AAC”) audio compression standard. Dolby is seeking financial damages and an injunction on the sale of infringing RIM products. “Litigation was regrettably our last resort… Read More

This decade has largely been defined largely by Apple products in the consumer space. The first part was all about the iPod, and the last part, the iPhone. This is where the lines and excitement were. In the 90s, it was about Windows and PCs, with Windows 95 as the likely high point. Before that, it was largely about Atari or VCRs, depending where you were in that decade. We are now fast approaching 2010, and starting to wonder what that… Read More

Though not likely the first name you think of when it comes to home audio, Sharp has expanded its speaker line with two new soundbars, an increasingly popular option for complementing HDTVs without the bulk and expense of a full home theater setup. Sharp showed off the HT-SB300 and HT-SB200 at its sprawling CES booth. Though it was difficult to get a feel for sound quality in the booming central hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center, the… Read More

Though Berlin’s IFA 2008 consumer electronics expo hasn’t yet officially begun, Samsung used the day preceding the event to get one of its tamer announcements, a fifth-generation Blu-ray player, out of the way. The BD-P2500 will keep a look much similar to its predecessor, the BD-P1500, but adds long-awaited Blu-ray Profile 2.0 compatibility and a handful of other features. Profile 2.0 allows the the BD-P2500 to access BD Live… Read More

Accessory and peripheral maker Turtle Beach has rolled out another entry in its line of gaming headphones in the form of the Ear Force X4 headset for the Xbox 360. Billing the cans as the most advanced wireless headphones ever build for console gaming, the X4s promise to bathe users in 5.1 Dolby surround sound while offering unique features like the ability to duck game sounds during chats. “The addition of Dolby 5.1 channel surround… Read More

Dolby Labs and SIM2 Multimedia are showing off their prototype high dynamic range (HDR) LCD display prototype in New York today. The display uses over 1,800 new Dolby LEDs as backlighting, enabling local dimming in areas of the screen to produce what the companies are touting as an “infinite” contrast ratio. “This prototype is a stunning example of what Dolby's HDR technologies can bring to the LCD market,”… Read More

While most people seem content with on-board audio on PCs for cranking out music through a cheap set of headphones or PC speakers, more serious audio enthusiasts look to better solutions to match their high-end systems, and Asus launched its own entry targeting this niche market on Thursday. The Xonar DX PCI Express Audio card offers 7.1 channels and a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) Asus claims is 35 times cleaner than onboard… Read More

In case you are unfamiliar with Dolby TrueHD and Dolby Digital Plus, both surroundsound audio codecs were developed for high-definition programming and media. Dolby TrueHD is supposed to be 100% lossless with an 18Mbps bit rate and will likely be featured on higher-end receiverswhile Dolby Digital Plus will support a compressed codec and up to a 6Mbps data rate. Either way, the new WindDVD HD software will be able to support both codecs.  … Read More

Tritton Technologies, a maker of CE and computer products, today announced the upcoming release of their Dolby Digital and Pro Logic certified digital gaming headphones. The new AX360 is priced at $149.99 and should be available by the end of May. The AX360, said Tritton, is targeted towards Xbox, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 2 owners. Besides Dolby Digital and Pro Logic certification, other features of this headset include eight

At this year's CeBIT expo, Toshiba has taken the wraps off the Qosmio G30, the latest addition to its high-end line of multimedia computers and its first laptop equipped with an HD DVD-capable optical drive. The new notebook is due to begin shipping in April in the United Kingdom, and it truly wants to be your full-equipped entertainment center. The Qosmio G30 will offer a TV Tuner, DVB-T tuner, Windows XP Media Center Edition, a… Read More

Microsoft and Dolby Laboratories announced yesterday that the upcoming Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system will fully support Dolby Digital surround for both movies and games. It will feature both interactive Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound for game play as well as Dolby Digital decoding for video playback.

Abit's AW8-Max motherboard, ASUSTeK's P5LD2 Deluxe motherboard, and Gigabyte's GA-8I955X Royal motherboard all passed Dolby's rigorous audio specifications testing. Each of these motherboardsfeatures Dolby Digital EX, Dolby Digital Live, Dolby Pro Logic IIx, Dolby Headphone, and Dolby Virtual Speaker technologies. These motherboards are now available for purchase by do-it-yourself PCenthusiasts. The Designed for Dolby… Read More

Blu-ray Disc was developed to enable recording, rewriting, and playback of high-definition (HD) video and to store large amounts of data (25 GB for single layer, 50 GB for dual layer on asingle-sided disc). In addition to the Dolby technologies mentioned above as optional codecs, the BDA selected Dolby Digital as a mandatory audio standard for Blu-ray Disc in September 2004. Dolby Digital Plus is an extension of Dolby Digital, an approved… Read More

Dolby Digital 5.1 Creator is a sophisticated audio coding technology that formats audio content into a multichannel Dolby Digital bitstream, allowing consumers to create home movies with rich, full, surround sound that captures the entire setting. As a result of its superior coding efficiencies, 5.1-channel Dolby Digital requires less data than stereo PCM, resulting in savings in disc space and allowing consumers to make longer recordings or… Read More