USL, Inc. Signs Licensing Agreement with Dolby for First Alternative-Content Product with Dolby Digital Decoding

 

USL, Inc. announces a licensing agreement allowing USL, Inc. to provide an optional Dolby Digital feature in the JSD-80 for alternative content.

Jack Cashin, President of USL, Inc. and designer of the popular JSD audio processor series, is proud to announce the addition of the Dolby® Digital professional decoder to the JSD-80 digital decoder for processing alternative content. Dolby Digital is used extensively in digital and high-definition television, satellite broadcasting, and consumer-packaged media formats such as DVD-Video and DVD-Audio. Cinematic content is expanding to include these and other sources, in addition to traditional film-based content. While the Dolby Digital Professional Decoder is not designed to play back feature film audio, it provides the capability to decode the audio from many of the popular sources that alternative content is delivered from. Studios, producers, editors and other content developers the world over have used and been familiar with this audio standard for many years.

The new USL, Inc. product, the JSD-80 Cinema Processor, will accept this audio format along with a simple stereo PCM signal, detect the source type and automatically decode it to a 5.1 stereo format.

“The JSD-80’s cutting-edge technology allows it to precisely emulate the analogue versions of all film sound tracks,” states Cashin, “I feel customers will be very pleased with this product.” Cashin goes on to say, “This along with THX approval has already resulted in several accolades from professionals.”

This will be USL, Inc.’s second licensing agreement for Dolby technologies. This powerful relationship will benefit the industry by providing a common platform for the dispersion of alternative content. Cinemas equipped with the JSD-80 can now seamlessly play alternative content in simple stereo or Dolby Digital through their sound systems.

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