11 Facts About Dolby

1.

Dolby Labs was founded by Ray Dolby in London, England, in 1965.

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2.

Dolby moved the company headquarters to the United States in 1976.

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3.

Dolby was persuaded by Henry Kloss of KLH to manufacture a consumer version of his noise reduction.

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4.

Dolby worked more on companding systems and introduced Type B in 1968.

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5.

In 1975, Dolby released Dolby Stereo, which included a noise reduction system in addition to more audio channels .

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6.

The first film with a Dolby-encoded stereo optical soundtrack was Lisztomania, although this only used an LCR encoding technique.

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7.

Dolby developed a digital surround sound compression scheme for the cinema.

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8.

Dolby Digital is found in the HDTV standard of the United States, DVD players, and many satellite-TV and cable-TV receivers.

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9.

Dolby developed a digital surround sound compression scheme for the TV series The Simpsons.

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10.

In July 2014, Dolby Laboratories announced plans to bring Atmos to home theater.

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11.

In May 2019, Dolby decided to add Dolby Atmos to hundreds of newer songs in the music industry.

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