POPULARITY
The team is taking a short break this summer and will be back in September with a plethora of new guests. To help you wait, we've selected a couple of previous episodes we wanted to share again with you. This month, we go back to the Ray Dolby Centre for a tour of what was, at the time of recording in January 2023, still very much a building site. A year and a bit later, the newest home of the Cavendish Laboratory is now completed and we're gearing up for the migration of 1,100 staff and students, along with research and teaching labs, scientific equipment, and technical instruments.Let's jump back in with our guest Andy Parker, who was the Head of the Cavendish at the time, for a wander around the new building and a fantastic chat about inventions, reinventions, and the future of physics. We hope you'll like it and if you do, don't forget to rate the episode or to leave us a review on your favourite podcast app! Episode 13: A tour of the Cavendish's new home with Andy ParkerThis is episode 13 of People Doing Physics, the podcast from the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge. This month marks our first birthday! One year, 12 guests, each one looking into their very own journey and connection with Physics. For this special anniversary episode, we've asked the head of the Cavendish Laboratory, Professor Andy Parker to take us to a building site. Not any building site though. The one, just across the road from the department's current location, where the newest home for the Cavendish Laboratory will open in 2024. A Professor of High Energy Physics, Andy joined the Cavendish as a lecturer in 1989. He served as Deputy Head of Department for 3 years before becoming Head of Department in 2013. Who better than Andy then, who has overseen this immense project for the best part of the past 10 years, to show us around and talk about what the new building means for the future of physics in Cambridge and nationally? With him we wandered and we roamed and we talked: about particle physics, ever bigger underground tunnels, and a lost spring on the carpet. Useful linksLearn more about the Ray Dolby Centre and about the relationship between Ray Dolby at the Cavendish.Explore the world of CERN, the Large Hadron Collider and the ATLAS inner detector.To learn more about the Cavendish Laboratory, or if you are interested in joining us or studying with us, go to www.phy.cam.ac.uk Share and join the conversationIf you like this episode don't forget to rate it and leave a review on your favourite podcast app. It really helps others to find us.Any comment about the podcast or question you would like to ask our physicists, email us at podcast@phy.cam.ac.uk or join the conversation on Twitter using the hashtag #PeopleDoingPhysics.Episode creditsHosts: Jacob Butler and Vanessa BismuthRecording and
On this week's show we take a look at the history of a company that is synonymous with home theater, Dolby Laboratories. We also read your emails and take a look at the week's news. News: LG Outlines Plans to Become a Media and Entertainment Platform | TV Tech Watch out Amazon and Roku, Vizio's new 4K TVs are vying to be the best budget TVs Comcast's Xumo-Branded Smart TVs Are Getting Good Reviews But Are Already Deeply Discounted LG Stops Integrating ATSC 3.0 Tuners Into Smart TVs After Losing Patent Dispute, Samsung and Sony Could Follow | Next TV Other: Hisense Smart Short Projector Renewed The Dolby Laboratories History Story in Chronological Order 1965 - Dolby Laboratories is a longtime innovator of developing electronic devices and systems to improve recorded sound. Founded by Ray Dolby in 1965, the company's first development was Dolby A-type noise reduction. It was basically a specially designed electronic circuit contained in a compact metal case. It was not a recording machine, but it could be attached to a recorder to improve its sound. 1966 - Dolby creates first product to reduce noise in music recordings. 1968 - Ray Dolby next developed a consumer version of the Dolby A system at the urging of Henry Kloss, an American audio pioneer and president of KLH Research and Development Corporation. The result was the 1968 introduction of Dolby B-type noise reduction, intended for home tape recorders. Following a relocation of the company from London to San Francisco, Dolby B was released into the world. Designed primarily for cassettes, it went on to completely alter the way music was both recorded and received world-over. It was simple and cheap, and by the mid-70s it was the standard for all cassette tapes – and is the type of noise reduction and is still used to this very day. Yes – people still like their cassette tapes! 1971 - The first film with Dolby sound was A Clockwork Orange (1971), which used Dolby noise reduction on all pre-mixes and masters, but a conventional optical sound track on release prints. 1974 - Callan was the first film with a Dolby-encoded optical soundtrack. 1975 - Dolby Laboratories introduced Dolby Stereo, a product aimed at motion picture producers and theaters. Dolby Stereo was used with existing 35-mm optical soundtracks, but with important changes. At the studio, stereo soundtracks were recorded using Dolby equipment. At the theaters, a Dolby unit and new loudspeakers were added to the existing projection equipment. The result was much higher sound quality. 1976 - The first true LCRS (Left-Center-Right-Surround) soundtrack was encoded on the movie A Star Is Born in 1976. In less than ten years, 6,000 cinemas worldwide were equipped to use Dolby Stereo sound. Dolby reworked the system slightly for home use and introduced Dolby Surround, which only extracted a surround channel, and the more impressive Dolby Pro Logic, which was the domestic equivalent of the theatrical Dolby Stereo. 1977 - Star Wars opens with Dolby Stereo®. 1982 - the company was receiving $6 million annually in licensing fees from approximately 125 audio equipment manufacturers. With circuits in about 70 million different consumer products, Dolby had a monopoly in the consumer noise reduction field. In the 1980s, virtually all pre recorded cassettes used Dolby B. The first major threat to Dolby's positioning began quietly in 1980, when dbx--a Newton, Massachusetts company--sold its system to several audio manufacturers, including the major Japanese company Matsushita Electric. In April 1982, the competition began to look more serious. Dbx pulled ahead of Dolby, developing the first miniature noise-reduction circuit for Walkmen, which at this time represented the fastest-growing consumer audio segment. Dbx, which had been developed in 1971, was a serious threat to Dolby because it reduced background noise by 40 decibels, a considerable improvement over Dolby's 10. Initially, high prices had made dbx unfamiliar to consumers, but the system was favored by recording professionals. By 1982, dbx had already far overtaken Dolby and held 70 percent of the commercial recording equipment market. In response to the threat posed by dbx's competition, Dolby introduced an upgraded version of its system, Dolby C, as well as a portable product. 1986 - Dolby Spectral Recording (or SR) worked on magnetic soundtracks for film as well as music cassettes, producing digital clarity from an analog sound system. Dolby SR used the same basic principle as Dolby's original circuit, monitoring the sound signal and adjusting frequency boost to suit the loudness level, with different signal levels boosted at different amounts. The result was a system that was dynamic and almost infinitely flexible. The system was used by many professional studios instead of digital recording, and in 1988 Dolby SR was in use at movie theaters showing the films Robocop and Space. 1992 - Dolby achieved $40 million in revenues, with a third from royalty payments that headed straight to the bottom line. Dolby sound reduction was now featured on approximately 380 million tape players, boom boxes, headphones, and car stereos, as well as a few billion audio-cassette packages. Dolby developed a digital surround sound compression scheme for the cinema. Dolby Stereo Digital (now simply called Dolby Digital) was first featured on the 1992 film Batman Returns. Introduced to the home theater market as Dolby AC-3 with the 1995 laserdisc release of Clear and Present Danger. The format did not become widespread in the consumer market, partly because of extra hardware that was necessary to make use of it until it was adopted as part of the DVD specification. Dolby Digital is now found in the HDTV (ATSC) standard of the United States, DVD players, and many satellite-TV and cable-TV receivers. Dolby developed a digital surround sound compression scheme for the TV series The Simpsons. 1998 - First live HDTV broadcast with 5.1-channel Dolby Digital audio. 1999 - Star Wars: Episode I—The Phantom Menace debuts in Dolby Surround EX. 2007 - Dolby announced the arrival of Dolby Volume at the International Consumer Electronics Show. 2010 - Dolby introduced Dolby Surround 7.1, and set up theaters worldwide with 7.1 surround speaker setups to deliver theatrical 7.1 surround sound. The first film to be released with this format was Pixar's Toy Story 3 which was later followed by 50 releases using the format. About eighty percent of films released are mixed in Dolby Surround 7.1 by default. 2014 - Dolby introduced its Dolby Atmos, a new cinematic technology adding overhead sound, first applied in Pixar's motion picture Brave. In July 2014, Dolby Laboratories announced plans to bring Atmos to home theater. The first television show to use the technology on disc was Game of Thrones. Dolby launches Dolby Vision™. 2019 - Dolby adds Atmos to hundreds of newer songs in the music industry.
This is Matt Reustle and today we are breaking down Dolby Labs. Our favorite Breakdowns are those businesses, which are widely known but barely understood. Dolby fits the bill. You see the logo everywhere but what does Dolby technology do and how does the business work? To answer those questions and break down Dolby, I was joined by Paul Vincent and William Nott from investment manager, Ninety One. We cover the backstory of Ray Dolby, what Dolby's actually building and selling, and how the business model works. Please enjoy this breakdown of Dolby. For the full show notes, transcript, and links to the best content to learn more, check out the episode page here. (for me - https://joincolossus.com/episodes/69279744/vincent-dolby-the-sound-standard) ----- This episode is brought to you by Tegus. Tegus is the modern research platform for leading investors. I'm a longtime user and advocate of Tegus, a company that I've been so consistently impressed with that last fall my firm, Positive Sum, invested $20M to support Tegus' mission to expand its product ecosystem. Whether it's quantitative analysis, company disclosures, management presentations, earnings calls - Tegus has tools for every step of your investment research. They even have over 4000 fully driveable financial models. Tegus' maniacal focus on quality, as well as its depth, breadth and recency of content makes it the one-stop, end-to-end research platform for investors. Move faster, gather deep research to build conviction and surface high-quality, alpha-driving insights to find your differentiated edge with Tegus. As a listener, you can take the Tegus platform for a free test drive by visiting tegus.co/patrick. ----- Business Breakdowns is a property of Colossus, LLC. For more episodes of Business Breakdowns, visit joincolossus.com/episodes. Stay up to date on all our podcasts by signing up to Colossus Weekly, our quick dive every Sunday highlighting the top business and investing concepts from our podcasts and the best of what we read that week. Sign up here. Follow us on Twitter: @JoinColossus | @patrick_oshag | @jspujji | @zbfuss | @ReustleMatt | @domcooke Show Notes (00:02:50) - (First question) - The problem that Dolby initially set out to solve (00:05:02) - Some of the well-known products Dolby offers today (00:08:41) - The path from noise reduction to enhancing the listener experience (00:13:23) - Invisalign: Patents, Patients, Profits; How their codec technology is actually implemented (00:16:40) - Whether or not how we record and what we record on can inhibit our ability to use Dolby's products (00:18:32) - What the end markets for Dolby look like today (00:21:04) - Whether or not they can offset against the consolidation of consumer technology (00:22:54) - Targeting manufacturers as customers (00:26:55) - The trouble in defining Dolby's total addressable market (00:28:15) - Metrics used for measuring the size and relevance of the business (00:31:23) - Outlining their royalty pricing model, its evolution, and the model's dynamics (00:34:54) - Whether or not the decline of movie theaters will impact their growth (00:38:01) - Thoughts about Dolby's cyclicality and potential trend impacts (00:42:38) - The margin profile and how capital intensive the business is (00:46:03) - His views on the potential risks to Dolby's future (00:50:30) - What stops Amazon or Apple from producing Dolby adjacent products in house (00:53:18) - How risky it is for Dolby to start pushing into the visual side of entertainment (01:00:53) - Lessons for investors and builders when studying Dolby's story
Help us get better by taking our quick survey! Your feedback will help us understand how we can improve in the future. Thank you for your time.This is episode 13 of People Doing Physics, the podcast from the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge. This month marks our first birthday! One year, 12 guests, each one looking into their very own journey and connection with Physics. For this special anniversary episode, we've asked the head of the Cavendish Laboratory, Professor Andy Parker to take us to a building site. Not any building site though. The one, just across the road from the department's current location, where the newest home for the Cavendish Laboratory will open in 2024. A Professor of High Energy Physics, Andy joined the Cavendish as a lecturer in 1989. He served as Deputy Head of Department for 3 years before becoming Head of Department in 2013. Who better than Andy then, who has overseen this immense project for the best part of the past 10 years, to show us around and talk about what the new building means for the future of physics in Cambridge and nationally? With him we wandered and we roamed and we talked: about particle physics, ever bigger underground tunnels, and a lost spring on the carpet. [00:36] – Guest's intro[01:38] – A walk through the Ray Dolby Centre – part 1[07:07] – Back in the studio: how dismantling things as a kid lead to a career in physics[08:38] – The world of CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research [11:35] – 300 Neutrino collisions [12:40] – Young and foolish scientists solving the R&D issues related to construction of the Large Hadron Collider, and its ATLAS inner detector.[15:40] – Developing the next 100 km long accelerator[20:25] - A walk through the Ray Dolby Centre – part 2[25:15] – Rebuilding a new laboratory and attracting the crème de la crème in physics[29:25] - Raising millions towards developing new physics and pushing towards the unknown[33:16] – The great relief[34:59] – What's coming and exciting in Physics in the Ray Dolby Centre and elsewhere? [37:40] – Outro Useful linksLearn more about the Ray Dolby Centre and about the relationship between Ray Dolby at the Cavendish.Explore the world of CERN, the Large Hadron Collider and the ATLAS inner detector.To learn more about the Cavendish Laboratory, or if you are interested in joining us or studying with us, go to www.phy.cam.ac.uk Share and join the conversationIf you like this episode don't forget to rate it and leave a review on your favourite podcast app. It really helps others to find us. Any comment about the podcast or question you would like to ask our physicists, email us at podcast@phy.cam.ac.uk or join the conversation
Heute vor 90 Jahren wurde in Portland/Oregon der Ingenieur Ray Dolby geboren – berühmt für seine Erfindungen rund um den guten Ton.
Ray Dolby l'uomo che ha dato al mondo un altro suono e meno rumore.Chi è nato negli anni 80 o prima ha sicuramente usato un riproduttore di cassette (lo chiamavo mangianastri o piastra) e quelle più performanti avevano il sistema di riduzione rumore Dolby B e C inventato da lui.Ha contribuito a sviluppare il videoregistratore mentre lavorava alla Ampex.Quasi tutti i cinema del mondo hanno il marchio Dolby in riferimento alle tecnologie surround da lui sviluppate.Ingegnere Americano nato nel 1933 e purtroppo deceduto il 12 settembre 2013È proprio da Ray Dolby che voglio iniziare una rubrica in pillole su alcune delle tecnologie sviluppate dalla Dolby.
A Consortium of Problem Solvers Podcast of Len Bertain's Audio Books
A number of different types of initiatives have been sponsored by different CEOs. For instance, Ray Dolby of Dolby Laboratories has a culture that flourishes on the energy created by the company's fixation on audio sound system perfection. That environment creates its own sources of energy. Herb Kelleher of Southwest Airlines creates energy initiatives with his Wing Ding flings. He gets employees excited to deliver their services to their customers. The CEOs job is to find that New Energy Initiative. In fact, we believe that this is one of the CEO's job responsibilities as defined in the Quantum Leap Company.In this chapter, we also see 2 separate discussion sessions between Dr. Elbie and Mr. Grimes on the subject of the War on Waste Paradox. Mr. Grimes is starting to see the presence of the paradox corollaries but he is getting impatient to get to the answer.We'll make some progress in the next chapter.
From April 2011: Tony, Donna and Ed go back to Apr. 14, 1956, the date of the first demonstration of the videotape recorder. Invented by Ray Dolby, Charles Ginsberg, and Charles Anderson, the first such machine was originally the size of a piano and could record both images and sound. CBS purchased three of these videotape recorders in 1956 for $75,000 apiece. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Who was Ray Dolby? TechStuff takes a look at the life and work of a man whose inventions changed how we experience sound. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
"I think a lot of developments start with the desire of the developer to get what he really wants so that he can use it. It’s not just the technical fascination or the business opportunity." — Ray Dolby Dolby certainly understood that to get things done, you must first love doing it. If you are starting a business, or if you are contemplating a career change, then you need to consider that the best results will come when you go after what you really want. You shouldn’t just go into something because of a technical aptitude or because it might make you some money. Real happiness comes from making money doing what you love. Wisdom about money, investing and life can be found anywhere. If you have a good quote you’d like me to share with your fellow Renaissance Man readers, send it to me, along with any comments, questions and suggestions you have about my website, newsletters, podcast or anything else. In The Name Of The Best Within Us, Jim Woods Renaissance Man Now, we want to hear from you! Would like to share your opinion or make a comment on the Way of the Renaissance Man podcast? If so, then please leave your comment or questions in the space provided below and share this article with your friends and family on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Your comments or question could be chosen as our featured Ask the Renaissance Man Anything on a future episode.
Nesta edição: – Ray Dolby, pioneiro da tecnologia de áudio, faleceu aos 80 anos de idade – Nokia Lumia 625 é anunciado oficialmente no Brasil – Não… se cortarem o seu dedo não poderão desbloquear o seu iPhone 5s – Vendas de discos de vinil na Amazon aumentaram em 745% desde 2008 – LG D821 […]
We are all over the road, getting face time with Washington Book Award winners, including Amanda Coplin. Also Ifanyi checks in with Scotty Iseri's project, educating the short set through with music.
After a crazy taping of "Nerds of the Roundtable", the Nerds decided to cut a show. The Nerds talk about Ray Dolby, Pizza and Boobs, the new iPhone launch, Dredd Day, Dungeons and Dragons movie, Harry Potter Spin off, Breaking Bad spinoff and American Psycho Series. We also talked with Jeremy Mathes on his Kickstarter graphic novel.
Los “drones” continúan apareciendo en escenarios ajenos a la guerra como el mundo policiaco y el de Hollywood. Y ayer se cumplieron 24 años del paso del Huracán Hugo por Puerto Rico. ¿Cómo ha cambiado la tecnología durante ese periodo? Presidenta del Brasil amenaza con “fracturar” la Internet por causa de las intervenciones de la Agencia Nacional de Seguridad de los Estados Unidos en sus sistemas de cómputos. Y el mundo de la electrónica está de luto con la muerte de Ray Dolby el creador de múltiples tecnologías de grabación y dueño de sobre 50 patentes relacionadas con la tecnología. Científicos de Massachusetts descubren método para ver el desarrollo de tumores cancerosos en tiempo real. Y la predicción de Steve Jobs se hace realidad. Las ventas de tabletas superarán las de las PCs antes de que termine el año 2013. ENLACES: • El futuro está en la robótica • Fallece genio de la electrónica Ray Dolby • Brasil amenaza con romper la hegemonía americana sobre la Internet • Nueva tecnología permite escanear crecimiento de tumores en tiempo real • Ventas de tabletas superarán las de PCs antes de que termine el año 2013 [sc:FirmaOrlandoMergal2013 ]
After a crazy taping of "Nerds of the Roundtable", the Nerds decided to cut a show. The Nerds talk about Ray Dolby, Pizza and Boobs, the new iPhone launch, Dredd Day, Dungeons and Dragons movie, Harry Potter Spin off, Breaking Bad spinoff and American Psycho Series. We also talked with Jeremy Mathes on his Kickstarter graphic novel.
Twitter to file for IPO, Kim Dotcom sues the New Zealand government, the partially invisible skyscraper, Ray Dolby dies, Massey University to pilot online exams.
Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek. Show Notes: MacTalk hacked and defaced with message purported from Syria [TechGeek] Malcolm Turnbull gives thumbs down to fibre NBN petition [The Age] Kogan puts company up for sale [Delimiter] Twitter will become a public company, files for IPO [The Verge] Facebook mobile app video ads: will play automatically without sound [BGR] iPhone 5s: Telstra's Pricing [Gizmodo Australia] iPhone 5c: Telstra's Pricing [Gizmodo Australia] Vodafone Pricing: iPhone 5c, iPhone 5s [Gizmodo Australia] Optus rolls out new 4G network [The Age] NSW Police trials iPad minis for tickets [Delimiter] The Audio Cassette Turns 50 [Gizmodo Australia] In a Breathtaking First, NASA's Voyager 1 Exits the Solar System [The New York Times] Netflix Uses Pirate Sites to Determine What Shows to Buy [TorrentFreak] Justin Bieber hints he is up for Robin role in Batman v Superman movie [NME] J.K. Rowling is writing a new movie in the Harry Potter-verse [io9] Fiery twerk video is a hoax, produced by Jimmy Kimmel [The Verge] 'Breaking Bad' Saul Goodman Spinoff On AMC -- Series To Serve As Prequel [Deadline] Audio pioneer Ray Dolby dies aged 80 [BBC News] Something we mentioned in the show but missing in the Show Notes? Let us know via our Contact Page. Songs We Played: Joe Cocker - "You Can Leave Your Hat On" [iTunes] Del The Funkee Homosapien - "Mistadobalina" [iTunes] Ween - "Push th' Little Daisies" [YouTube] Genesis - "I Can't Dance" [iTunes] Led Zeppelin - "D'Yer Mak'er" [iTunes] Gloria Gaynor - "Reach Out, I'll Be There" [iTunes] Walter Murphy - "A Fifth Of Beethoven" [iTunes] Questions, Comments, Feedback and Suggestions are all welcome. Website - http://geeksinterrupted.fm Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/GeeksInterrupted Twitter - https://twitter.com/GeeksOnAir Voicemail - http://www.speakpipe.com/GeeksInterrupted If you enjoyed this episode head on over to iTunes and kindly leave us a rating, a review and subscribe.
iPhone 5S e 5C no Brasil, morte de Ray Dolby, Microsoft vs Apple, vazamento do GTA V, planos de Hugo Barra na Xiaomi, aeroporto para naves espaciais.