Ray Dolby, who developed the Dolby noise reduction system used in a multitude of professional and consumer audio applications, has died. An electrical engineer, Dolby invented the Dolby Sound System ...

Ray Dolby, creator of the Dolby noise-reduction system that revolutionized recording, died on September 12, 2013. He suffered from Alzheimer’s and died of leukemia in his San Francisco home. He was 80 ...

Before an audio revolution in the mid-1960s, just about all music, dialogue and other sounds played on tape recordings had one thing in common: hiss. The bothersome, underlying noise seemed especially ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Audio pioneer Ray Dolby was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame last week, in ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- Ray Dolby, an American inventor and audio pioneer who founded Dolby Laboratories, has died at the age of 80. The company said Thursday that Dolby died in his home at San ...

Ray Dolby wasn’t the only person to have had a life-altering “ah-ha” moment while traveling in India. But his, which came in the early 1960s while listening to scratchy recordings he’d made, may be ...

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In the world of high-profile audio, you can easily count the names that everyone knows: Bose, Shure, Pioneer, Sony, Dolby, and perhaps just a handful of others. Sadly, a pioneer in the world of audio ...

Ray Dolby, the audio pioneer who founded Dolby Laboratories in 1965, revolutionized film and sound recording in developing the Dolby noise-reduction system, which removed the hiss from analog tape. He ...

Matthew Sweet goes in search of Ray Dolby, the extraordinary inventor whose Dolby Noise Reduction system revolutionised recorded sound, transformed the cinema experience, and whose company, Dolby ...

What do the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Star Wars, and the San Francisco Opera have in common? The answer is simple—Ray Dolby, inventor of the technology ...