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Dolby Applies Home Theater Logo to PCs

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On Tuesday, Dolby Laboratories announced updates to its four-year-old "PC Entertainment Experience" program.

Dolby Sound Room logo

Dolby works together with PC vendors, hardware makers, and software companies to certify and logo equipment and software, and to provide some core audio capabilities to the PC sound hardware/software stack. There are some PCs, notebooks, and sound cards with Dolby logos on them that are part of this program.

The updates announced today consist of two major parts. The existing "Dolby Sound Room" logo has expanded to the second generation. It's aimed at two-speaker and headphone setups, and includes new Sound Space Expander technology to widen the sound field, Natural Bass to provide psychoacoustic bass response enhancement, and Dolby Headphone surround virtualization.

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Jason was a certified computer geek at an early age, playing with his family's Apple II when he was still barely able to write. It didn't take long for him to start playing with the hardware, adding in 80-column cards and additional RAM as his family moved up through Apple II+, IIe, IIgs, and eventually the Macintosh. He was sucked into Intel based side of the PC world by his friend's 8088 (at the time, the height of sophisticated technology), and this kicked off a never-ending string of PC purchases and upgrades.

Through college, where he bounced among several different majors before earning a degree in Asian Studies, Jason started to pull down freelance assignments writing about his favorite hobby—video and computer games. It was shortly after graduation that he found himself, a thin-blooded Floridian, freezing his face off at Computer Games Magazine in Vermont, where he founded the hardware and technology section and built it up over five years before joining the ranks at ExtremeTech and moving out to beautiful northern California. When not scraping up his hands on the inside of a PC case, you can invariably find Jason knee-deep in a PC game, engrossed in the latest console title, or at the movie theater.

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