The rush to standards for immersive audio is fraught with so many problems that it’s difficult to document them all. Immersive audio is an area alive with innovation, innovation that could be stifled by subjecting it to standards in its
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Archives for September 2013
DCI Adds Object-Based Sound
DCI amended its Digital Cinema System Specification for the second time in its history, this time to address object-based audio. It’s not clear why DCI felt the need to rush into this area, and the resulting requirement is lopsided in
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Has NATO’s Love Affair With DTS and MDA Gone Too Far?
The National Association of Theatre Owners, a non-profit entity, has been secretly meeting with a select set of competitive entities associated with cinema sound to favor the DTS MDA object-based audio format over Dolby Atmos. NATO’s new
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Update on High Frame Rates
Higher frame rates may be a topic that’s now passé in the press, but there’s still a movie coming out in HFR end of this year, and Warner Bros and exhibitors are busy undergoing the necessary preparations. In addition, certain standards
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Ray Dolby (1933 – 2013)
During my interview, no one breathed a word about cinema. In fact, everyone at Dolby was vague about why they wanted to hire a new engineer. But I was an audio geek designing semiconductor integrated circuits in Silicon Valley, and Dolby
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