Dolby Laboratories Announces Sony’s Soundbar HT-ST5000 and AV Receiver STR-DN1080 Will Feature Dolby Atmos Moving Audio
January 04, 2017 at 09:01 pm
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Dolby Laboratories, Inc. announced that Sony’s soundbar HT-ST5000 and AV Receiver STR-DN1080 will feature Dolby Atmos moving audio. Dolby Atmos delivers captivating sound that places and moves audio anywhere in the room, including overhead, to bring entertainment to life all around the audience. Whether it is listening to music, movies, television shows or playing its favorite video games, Dolby Atmos delivers the full impact of the entertainment experience. Both Sony’s soundbar HT-ST5000 and AV Receiver STR-DN1080, featuring Dolby Atmos, will be available first in North America in spring of 2017, followed by global availability. Sony’s HT-ST5000 soundbar includes a pair of upward firing speakers that conform to the Dolby Atmos standard for overhead sound reproduction of object and channel based content. In addition, the soundbar includes the Dolby Surround upmixer, which decodes and directs sounds to all of the speakers in the soundbar including up-firing capabilities to provide a higher sense of immersion from all channel based content.
Dolby Laboratories, Inc. is engaged in designing and manufacturing of audio and imaging hardware and software products for the cinema, television, broadcast and entertainment industries. The Company's products are used in content creation, distribution and playback to enhance image and sound quality and improve transmission and playback. Its cinema imaging products include digital cinema servers used to load, store, decrypt, decode, watermark, and playback digital film files for presentation on digital cinema projectors and software used to encrypt, encode and package digital media files for distribution. Its cinema audio products include cinema processors, amplifiers and loudspeakers used to decode, render, and optimally play back digital cinema soundtracks, including those using Dolby Atmos. The Company's other products include three dimensional glasses and kits, broadcast hardware and software. Its technology includes Dolby Atmos, Dolby TrueHD, Dolby Vision and Dolby Digital Plus.
DOLBY LABORATORIES, INC. 
