DTS is a leading provider of entertainment technology, historically focused on high-quality digital multi-channel audio technology, products, and services for entertainment markets worldwide. Many of the most successful films of recent years have featured DTS soundtracks. Today, all major studios in the United States, as well as many foreign film companies and distributors, are releasing films in DTS.
Using a series of innovations, inventions and powerful multi-function coding technology, DTS has set the reference standard for digital audio delivery systems in the motion picture industry. (DTS Online)
DTS Digital Sound takes full advantage of digital storage technology advancements by putting data on the medium invented to store it: CD-ROM. Playing the correct sound for each frame of film projected, the DTS system reads time code on the film and synchronizes playback from the CD-ROM discs.
DTS is the good choice for filmmakers who desire a high degree of flexibility near the end of the post-production process. Since the soundtrack is on a disc, last minute changes can be made up to a few days before release without incurring the high cost of remaking prints. DTS is the only format that allows foreign language playback using domestic prints. Saving valuable time, money and print management efforts, all that is required is a new set of foreign language discs. DTS is the only digital sound format that is compatible with any film format, perf and frame rate for large format films, motion-based ride films and other special venues. (DTS Online)
A theater where the operator has only one computer screen, a wireless remote control, and one powerful software program that runs everything in the theater...This is Digital Theater. (E&S Digital Theater) If a theater gets the film through a high-speed network, satellite or optical fiber network, and plays the film with digital projector, this is a digital film theater. The digital theater can save 50% ~ 90% budgets for releasing a film. (Dawn of Digital Theater)
The digital film theaters use DTS technology. DTS technology provides the most flexible and reliable sound format for the digital film theater.
A list of DTS installations in special venue theatres includes:
• IMAX, worldwide
• iWERKS, worldwide
• ShowScan, worldwide
• Maxvision, Australia
• National Park Service, U.S.
• Kennedy Space Center, Florida
• Hoover Dam, Nevada
DTS's main competitors in multichannel audio are Dolby Digital and SDDS. Only Dolby Digital and DTS are used on DVDs and implemented in home theater hardware. In home theater applications, DTS can use lower data rates of approximately 800 kilobits/second or less.
DTS was first shown in the cinema with the release of Jurassic Park in 1993.
Digital Film - Film and Director
Digital Online http://www.dtsonline.com/cinema/[Accessed 27 Oct. 2004]
E&S Digital Theater http://www.es.com/products/digital_theater/[Accessed 27 Oct. 2004]
Dawn of Digital Theater http://www.pcworld.cn/issue_2004/0410/6c.asp [Accessed 27 Oct. 2004]
Introduction for digital Theatre System http://www.blogchina.com/new/display/40213.html [Accessed 27 Oct. 2004]
--Hao Zhang 21:51, 27 Oct 2004 (EST)
