Interesting, I would think that having Dolby Digital AC3 audio as the requirement for ATSC HD OTA signals they still had a real lock on the audio market. I had heard there were other audio technologies considered but Dolby won out in the US. IIRC Japan went with something other than Dolby encoding for their HD transmission standard. Short term memory loss kicking in and I can't remember the standard they adopted.
---In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, <tcurren@...> wrote :
As I understand it, they need new licensing opportunities as a bunch of their audio patents are expiring. This could be total BS, but I have heard it from numerous sources. And since their business model is built on licensing...
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