Dolby Labs was founded by Ray Dolby in London, England, in 1965.
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Dolby was persuaded by Henry Kloss of KLH to manufacture a consumer version of his noise reduction.
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Dolby worked more on companding systems and introduced Type B in 1968.
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In 1975, Dolby released Dolby Stereo, which included a noise reduction system in addition to more audio channels .
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The first film with a Dolby-encoded stereo optical soundtrack was Lisztomania, although this only used an LCR encoding technique.
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Dolby developed a digital surround sound compression scheme for the cinema.
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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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Dolby developed a digital surround sound compression scheme for the TV series The Simpsons.
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In July 2014, Dolby Laboratories announced plans to bring Atmos to home theater.
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In May 2019, Dolby decided to add Dolby Atmos to hundreds of newer songs in the music industry.
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