Digital TV News: Dolby Laboratories

Nationalchip Plans to Offer Chip Designs with Dolby Digital Plus for Next-Generation Broadcast Systems
Sep 29, 2010 – Dolby Labs (NYSE:DLB) has announced plans to develop an implementation licensing program in China. The company also stated that it is working with Nationalchip to offer chip designs that support Dolby® Digital Plus.
News categories: Dolby, Nationalchip, China, Licensing, Semiconductor, Silicon IP

HDTVs and Set-Top Boxes Enabled with Dolby Digital Plus Reach Record Shipment Numbers
Sep 8, 2010 – Dolby Labs (NYSE:DLB) has announced that Dolby® Digital Plus was incorporated into more than eight million HDTVs and two million set-top boxes (STBs) shipped from June 2009 to June 2010, according to its latest product licensing report.
News categories: Dolby, Market Research, Set Top Box, Smart TV

Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem Unveils UltraViolet™ Brand
Jul 20, 2010 – The Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem (DECE) has announced its consumer brand - UltraViolet™ - and logo. In addition, the consortium announced three additional new members bringing the total to nearly 60 member companies.
News categories: Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem, UltraViolet, Cable TV, Content Protection, Digital TV, DRM, Gaming, IPTV, Media Player, Middleware, Mobile, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Streaming

ATSC Establishes Planning Teams For Next Generation TV Technologies
May 21, 2010 – The Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) has announced plans to explore opportunities in three important areas: terrestrial broadcast delivery of 3D TV, next-generation television broadcasting systems and Internet-connected TV technologies.
News categories: Advanced Television Systems Committee, ATSC 3, Metaverse, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Streaming, Terrestrial, USA

Dolby Makes Available 3D Open Specification at NAB 2010
Apr 12, 2010 – Alongside its latest innovations in broadcast audio, Dolby Laboratories (NYSE: DLB) announced new developments in broadcast 3D and imaging accuracy at this year's NAB show.
News categories: Dolby, Content Distribution, Metaverse, NABShow

Dolby Multistream Decoder Now Available on NXP Digital TV Chipset
Aug 31, 2009 – Dolby Labs (NYSE:DLB) has announced that NXP Semiconductors has become the first semiconductor company to successfully implement the new Dolby® MS10 Multistream Decoder with its TV543 iDTV single-chip system solution.
News categories: Dolby, NXP, Media Player, Semiconductor, Silicon IP, Smart TV

France TNT HD Channels Make Move to Dolby Digital Plus
Jun 2, 2009 – Dolby Labs (NYSE:DLB) has announced that Dolby® Digital Plus has become the sole audio stream for three leading high-definition terrestrial channels broadcast on France's national Télévision Numérique Terrestre HD (TNT HD) platform.
News categories: Dolby, France, Set Top Box, Terrestrial

Digital Entertainment Companies in China to Support Dolby High-Definition Audio Technologies for Blu-ray Disc Format
Mar 19, 2009 – Dolby (NYSE: DLB) has announced that three companies in China - TCL, MIT Technology and Lite-On IT - have agreed to license Dolby® TrueHD and Dolby Digital Plus for future Blu-ray Disc products.
News categories: Dolby, Blu-ray, China

AAC Joint Patent Licensing Program Update
Jan 5, 2009 – Via Licensing has updated its Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) patent licensing program to enable licensees to secure rights to MPEG-2 AAC, MPEG-4 AAC, MPEG-4 High Efficiency AAC (HE AAC), and for the first time, HE AAC v.2, all under a single license.
News categories: Via Licensing, CES2024, Licensing, Mobile, Patent, Set Top Box, Smart TV