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Dolby Collaborates with Leading Hollywood Studios to Deliver High-Quality Audio for Digital Content

Dolby Laboratories, Inc. today announced that Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment and Anchor Bay Entertainment now encode movies and TV programs in the UltraViolet™Common File Format (CFF) using Dolby® Digital Plus™.

With UltraViolet, consumers can download and stream their favorite movies and television programs anytime and anywhere to their TV screens, personal computers, tablets, and mobile phones. With the launch of UltraViolet CFF for downloads, titles from Twentieth Century Fox and Anchor Bay will feature premium surround sound from Dolby. Digital entertainment services including CinemaNow™, Target Ticket™, and VUDU™ will deliver UltraViolet CFF-encoded TV shows and movies in Dolby Digital Plus from these studios.

According to recent research conducted by Parks Associates, 50% of consumers in the United States indicated that sound is very important to them when watching movies on their smartphones and tablets.

From the article, "Dolby Collaborates with Leading Hollywood Studios to Deliver High-Quality Audio for Digital Content."

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