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Audio For Digital Cinema
David W. Gray
Dolby Laboratories, Inc.
The potential of a new digital delivery system for feature film into theatres offers tremendous opportunities to improve, expand, standardize, and future proof all the various system components—specifically audio—for this discussion. For audio, pundits and designers have the unique situation of a relatively clean sheet of paper. Certainly legacy audio formats can neither be forgotten nor can they be considered much of a burden. This clean sheet is both blessing and curse in that the capability to do anything must always be weighted against the desire to do something. The chapter will point to a number of dichotomies that currently exist with the state of audio in the process ...
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