Video: Dolby Interview at CEDIA 2007

Craig Eggers is interviewed by our own Gene DellaSala to discuss the next generation AV receivers and HD-DVD players which enable the user to have an experience in the home that is equivalent to the studio masters. Dolby discusses the upcoming Audioholics State of the CE Union event where Dolby and AIX Records will be teaming up to showcase an impressive 7.1 demo. Craig also clears up some misconceptions about Dolby TrueHD. Dolby stated that all existing and first-generation high definition DVD players (with one exception) support Dolby True-HD either natively or with a firmware update.

Dolby's hope is that more studios will latch onto Dolby TrueHD and bring high resolution audio into the home of consumers. Could this be the next iteration of high resolution audio? Dolby would like to hope so.

Craig also discusses the difference between AV receivers which decode the bitstream natively form the disc. These players, however, when sending audio via bitstream lose the ability to use the overlay (button) sounds. This also affects interactivity audio (for example PIP audio functions). There are excellent solutions and we talk about what to expect when matching the newest products.

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