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DreamWorks to Float Huge Loan with Investors
Barry Willis  |  Nov 28, 1999

Want to own a piece of the studio that produced <I>Saving Private Ryan</I>? If you're a big player, you may soon have a chance to do so&mdash;through your broker. <A HREF="http://www.dreamworks.com/">DreamWorks SKG</A>, the entertainment combine founded by Stephen Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg, and David Geffen, wants to raise $525 million through the sale of debt securities. The infusion of cash will be used to refinance old debts as well as to fund new productions, and will be repaid by worldwide box-office receipts, and video revenues from movies already in inventory or as yet unmade.

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Dress Your Gear Email Glitch -- Resubmit!
SV Staff  |  Oct 27, 2008
For those who tried to enter our Dress Your Gear for Halloween contest over the weekend, an email glitch may have prevented delivery of your entries. So try again!Specifically, our email address soundandvision@hfmus.com seemed to be not...
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Drive Time Goes Up, So Does Spending on Car Electronics
SV Staff  |  Mar 02, 2008
If you're like most Americans, you spend 17 hours a week in your vehicle. That's a lot of time behind the wheel, which is why 38 percent of the driving population is planning to buy and install a CE device in their ride this year. It's not what...
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DRM Kills Google Video Downloads
Mark Fleischmann  |  Aug 16, 2007
In what surely must be the worst-case scenario for digital rights management, Google has informed purchasers of its video downloads that they will no longer play. They are not merely copy-protected, they are unplayable under any circumstances.
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DropLabs 'Engages the Senses' with Vibrating Sneakers
SV Staff  |  Nov 27, 2019
You’re an AV aficionado and you’ve seen it all, right? Well, maybe not…
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Drummers can snare Miles
SV Staff  |  Apr 28, 2009
Do you think you know — or do you think you are — the drummer who has everything? Well, he/she/you will now have to make room for the Miles Davis Kind of Blue 50th Anniversary Snare Drum, offered by the Innovation Drum Company (in conjunction with...
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DTS Adds New Features to Play-Fi Streaming App
SV Staff  |  Jul 19, 2018
DTS has announced a software update for its DTS Play-Fi streaming app that integrates features from the recently introduced Play-Fi Headphones app and adds several other capabilities, including a previous-sessions memory.
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DTS and Linear Acoustics Getting Olympic Gold
SV Staff  |  Jun 26, 2008
DTS better book some tickets to Beijing. First class, all the way. NBC just selected Linear Acoustics to supply its UPMAX:neo mixers which feature DTS surround sound technology for the 2008 Summer Olympics, beginning 8/8/08. This follows NBC's...
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DTS Announces DTS-ES Discrete 6.1 Surround Format
 |  Jun 25, 2000

In mid-June, <A HREF="http://www.dtstech.com/">DTS</A> announced a new version of its DTS-ES Extended Surround Format for home theater. Designated DTS-ES Discrete 6.1, the system is a "new, proprietary technology for the playback of discrete, 6.1-channel content from DVDs and CDs," according to a company press release. The innovation is said to "elevate the performance standard for playback of the DTS 6.1-channel Extended Surround format introduced in motion picture theaters last year."

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DTS Announces Play-Fi App for Headphone Listening
SV Staff  |  Jun 25, 2018
DTS has announced a free app that enables content playing on DTS Play-Fi gear to be streamed via Wi-Fi to headphones connected to a phone or tablet.
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DTS Answers Atmos: Dave Casey on DTS:X
Bob Ankosko  |  Jul 13, 2015
In early April—a full nine months after Dolby Atmos had its coming out party in New York—DTS officially announced DTS:X, an “object-based, multi-dimensional audio technology” for commercial cinema and home theater. We spoke with Dave Casey, senior director of program management for DTS:X to learn more about the new format and find out how it differs from Atmos.

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DTS Ditching Theaters, Staying Home
SV Staff  |  May 16, 2008
If you ever doubted how important the home theater market is, take a gander at this news flash. DTS, a leading innovator in surround sound, is ditching the movie business and concentrating solely on the home theater biz. They've officially sold...
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DTS in Blu-ray, HD-DVD Specs
Ultimate AV Staff  |  Oct 04, 2004

Digital Theater Systems Inc. (DTS) is in with <A HREF="http://www.blu-raydisc.com">Blu-ray</A> and <A HREF="http://www.dvdforum.org">HD-DVD</A>.

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DTS Launching IPO
Barry Willis  |  Apr 27, 2003

<A HREF="http://www.dts.com">Digital Theater Systems Inc</A> hopes to get a financial boost through an initial public offering of stock to take place later this year.

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DTS OK'd for Broadcasting
Barry Willis  |  Nov 24, 2002

Soon, <A HREF="http://www.dolby.com">Dolby</A> won't be the only option for surround-sound processing in digital television broadcasting. <A HREF="http://www.dtsonline.com">Digital Theater Systems</A> (DTS) will also have a place in the format, thanks to a recent agreement with the <A HREF="http://www.dvb.org">Digital Video Broadcasting project</A>. The DVB is a technical consortium of more than 300 companies, established to create common international specifications for the transition from analog to digital broadcasting.

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