Ray Milton Dolby was an American engineer and inventor of the noise reduction system known as Dolby NR.
11 Facts About Ray Dolby
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Ray Dolby helped develop the video tape recorder while at Ampex and was the founder of Dolby Laboratories.
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Ray Dolby attended Sequoia High School in Redwood City, California.
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Ray Dolby subsequently won a Marshall Scholarship for a Ph.
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The first film with Ray Dolby sound was A Clockwork Orange, which used Ray Dolby noise reduction on all pre-mixes and masters, but a conventional optical sound track on release prints.
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Callan was the first film with a Ray Dolby-encoded optical soundtrack.
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Ray Dolby then developed a digital surround sound compression scheme for the cinema.
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Ray 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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Ray Dolby was a Fellow and past president of the Audio Engineering Society.
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Ray Dolby died of leukemia on September 12,2013, at his home in San Francisco at the age of 80.
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Ray Dolby was survived by his wife Dagmar, two sons, Tom and David, and four grandchildren.