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<p><font face="Arial">In 1987, I attended the unveiling of Dolby
Digital for 35mm film. The demonstration was very impressive
although one could tell when the sound was switched, back &
forth, between DD and the analog sound track which was Dolby SR
encoded. Afterwards, I pointed out (</font><font face="Arial"><font
face="Arial">at the time) to David Gray & Tom Scott, </font>that
there were less than a dozen theaters equipped to play an SR
encoded track....world wide. This meant that the vast majority
of theaters that installed DD, would be playing an SR encoded
soundtrack through a system designed to play Dolby
A.........UGH! <br>
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<p><font face="Arial">David pointed out that Dolby had done several
focus groups &, much to his surprise, the listeners couldn't
tell the difference or, didn't care.</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial">My $0.02</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial">CB</font><br>
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Corey Bailey Audio Engineering
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.baileyzone.net">www.baileyzone.net</a></pre>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 4/23/2021 1:02 PM, Scott Dorsey via
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">Are there any other issues I am missing?
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1. The average viewer really doesn't care about sound quality.
2. Video people on the whole care and know less about sound quality
even than the average listener.
These things are unfortunate.
--scott
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