Dolby Demonstrates Latest Real-World Applications of Dolby Digital Plus at IBC2007

Dolby Demonstrates Latest Real-World Applications of Dolby Digital Plus at IBC2007

Next-Generation Audio Format Serves as Solution for Future Broadcast Needs

IBC 2007

Booth 2.218

Building on the strong momentum of the Dolby® Digital format, Dolby Laboratories, Inc. (NYSE:DLB) will show the latest real-world applications of Dolby Digital Plus, the audio technology for high-definition programming and IPTV and an ideal partner for H.264 video.

At its IBC2007 booth (2.218) Dolby will showcase the growing range of professional broadcast encoders, consumer receivers, and other broadcast tools with support for Dolby Digital Plus. Partner companies include:
Advanced Digital Broadcast
Amino Technologies plc
Amstrad plc
Axon Digital Design
Cisco Scientific Atlanta
Harmonic Inc.
Humax Co. Ltd.
Pace Micro Technology plc
Philips
Rohde & Schwarz
Sony
Thomson

“Broadcasters in the EMEA region have chosen Dolby Digital 5.1 as the platform to deliver surround sound on more than 170 channels, and with all the advancements of Dolby Digital Plus, we are bringing new applications that enrich the HDTV and IPTV viewing experience,” said Jason Power, Director, Broadcast Products, Dolby Laboratories.

In addition, the company will highlight a broad range of tools that meet present and future broadcast demands with the flexibility to realize the full audio potential of the high-definition experience. At its booth, Dolby will also demonstrate:
Dolby DP600 and DP600-C Program Optimizer products are unique tools for automatic loudness correction in file-based broadcast chains. Compatible with many of the broadcast and video-on-demand (VOD) media file formats currently in use, this innovative and flexible system offers broadcasters automated file-based loudness analysis and correction. The DP600-C version additionally offers faster-than-real-time encoding and decoding of Dolby Digital, Dolby Digital Plus, Dolby E, and MPEG-1 Layer II content, as well as enabling transcoding between any of these formats.

Dolby E simplifies handling of 5.1 audio prior to transmission and is widely used by broadcasters. Dolby showcases its implementation in new products from Bel Digital Audio, Calrec, OmniTek, Pro-Bel, RTW, Tektronix, and TSL.

Dolby SCC2000 Secure Content Creator is a scalable mastering solution for JPEG 2000 digital cinema content that provides compression, encoding, packaging, and encryption. Designed to work as a stand-alone unit or integrated into current postproduction and digital intermediate systems, the Dolby SCC2000 enables efficient 2K and 4K JPEG 2000 encoding for all digital cinema content.

Dolby Media Encoder SE is the new single-computer version of Dolby’s powerful Dolby Media Producer audio encoder for disc authoring facilities. It offers comprehensive encoding support for all Dolby audio technologies for HD DVD, Blu-ray Disc(TM), DVD-Video, and DVD-Audio in a new software package designed specifically for smaller facilities or those with dedicated audio encoding facilities.

Finally, on Monday, 10 September, Richard Welsh, Manager of Digital Cinema Services for Dolby Laboratories, will speak on Dolby’s advancements in 3D cinema technologies at the D-cinema conference. The session is entitled “3D, A New Dimension in Cinema, Part 2—Delivering the Show: The Presentation Technologies, How They Work and How They Compare” and will take place in the main auditorium at the Amsterdam RAI International Exhibition and Congress Centre.

About Dolby Laboratories

Dolby Laboratories (NYSE:DLB) develops and delivers products and technologies that make the entertainment experience more realistic and immersive. For more than four decades, Dolby has been at the forefront of defining high-quality audio and surround sound in cinema, broadcast, home audio systems, cars, DVDs, headphones, games, televisions, and personal computers. For more information about Dolby Laboratories or Dolby technologies, please visit www.dolby.com.

Certain statements in this press release, including statements regarding the performance, capabilities, and impact of Dolby Technologies, including Dolby Digital, Dolby E, Dolby Digital Plus, the Dolby DP600 and DP600-C Program Optimizer, the Dolby SCC2000 Secure Content Creator, and the Dolby Media Encoder SE; the adoption of such technologies with high-definition video and next-generation broadcasting; potential future uses for these technologies; and the potential benefits that Dolby customers, including broadcasters, content creators, and audiences, may derive from these technologies, are “forward-looking statements” that are subject to risks and uncertainties. These forward-looking statements are based on management’s current expectations. The following important factors, without limitation, could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements: risks that these technologies may not perform as anticipated, risks associated with successfully going on air with these technologies, competition in the market for high-quality audio technologies, rapid changes in technical requirements for high-definition and sound technologies, risks associated with introducing new technologies to broadcasters, risks associated with consumer demand for the latest audio technologies including surround sound broadcasts, rapid changes in hardware devices for receiving broadcasts, rapid changes in technological requirements for audio technologies, risks associated with building market acceptance of and demand for Dolby Digital technologies, risks associated with having Dolby technologies adopted as industry standards, and other risks detailed in Dolby’s Securities and Exchange Commission filings and reports, including its most recent Periodic Report on Form 10-Q or 10-K. Dolby disclaims any obligation to update information contained in these forward-looking statements whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise.

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Contacts

Dolby Laboratories
Jeanne Alford, 415-645-5245
jalford {at} dolby(.)com