OT: Ray Dolby obituary

[Tim Schwartz]

Just saw this blog. Ray certainly had a huge impact on the electronics
industry.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/09/12/221877517/ray-dolby-who-pioneered-recorded-sound-dies?ft=1&f=1001

Tim
Bristol Electronics

 

[dave]

On 09/13/2013 06:22 AM, Tim Schwartz wrote:

Just saw this blog. Ray certainly had a huge impact on the electronics
industry.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/09/12/221877517/ray-dolby-who-pioneered-recorded-sound-dies?ft=1&f=1001


Tim
Bristol Electronics

You'd never know the name if it weren't for Henry Kloss. He was head of
Advent and suggested Ray design a circuit for Philips type cassette decks.

 

[Phil Allison]

"Tim Schwartz"

Just saw this blog. Ray certainly had a huge impact on the electronics
industry.

** HUH ???

What utter CRAP.

The only remarkable thing that Ray Dolby ever achieved was to disprove the
widely held belief, among audio novices and experts alike, that was quite
impossible to polish a turd.

Along with Amar Bose, the other world famous turd polisher - but only in
his marketing.

Funny how they should both die within months.




.... Phil

 

[Michael Black]

On Fri, 13 Sep 2013, dave wrote:

On 09/13/2013 06:22 AM, Tim Schwartz wrote:
Just saw this blog. Ray certainly had a huge impact on the electronics
industry.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/09/12/221877517/ray-dolby-who-pioneered-recorded-sound-dies?ft=1&f=1001


Tim
Bristol Electronics

You'd never know the name if it weren't for Henry Kloss. He was head of
Advent and suggested Ray design a circuit for Philips type cassette decks.

That's not the way the article in Electronics Illustrated in May 1971
went. He was already working in recording, and saw the need, and worked
on it. Dolby A was for preofessional use, Dolby B for consumers came
later.

Now one might argue that if Advent hadn't put Dolby into that famous
cassette deck it wouldn't have gone any further, but that's a different
matter.

Michael

 

[dave]

On 09/13/2013 07:26 AM, Michael Black wrote:

On Fri, 13 Sep 2013, dave wrote:

On 09/13/2013 06:22 AM, Tim Schwartz wrote:
Just saw this blog. Ray certainly had a huge impact on the electronics
industry.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/09/12/221877517/ray-dolby-who-pioneered-recorded-sound-dies?ft=1&f=1001



Tim
Bristol Electronics

You'd never know the name if it weren't for Henry Kloss. He was head
of Advent and suggested Ray design a circuit for Philips type cassette
decks.

That's not the way the article in Electronics Illustrated in May 1971
went. He was already working in recording, and saw the need, and worked
on it. Dolby A was for preofessional use, Dolby B for consumers came
later.

Now one might argue that if Advent hadn't put Dolby into that famous
cassette deck it wouldn't have gone any further, but that's a different
matter.

Michael

The name dolby became well known by the Great Unwashed because it was
the name of a switch on the first truly personal portable
recording/playback system. They don't care that Academy Sound sucked.

 

[Phil Allison]

"dave is wrong "

The name dolby became well known by the Great Unwashed because it was the
name of a switch on the first truly personal portable recording/playback
system.

** The Dolby brand was well known long before Walkmans appeared.

Nearly every cassette deck sold in the 1970s had the feature fitted - with
name and logo.

Folk may not have understood it, or even called it " Dobly " as one of my
customers invariably did.



.... Phil

 

[Phil Allison]

"Michael Black"

Phil Allison wrote:

"dave is wrong "


The name dolby became well known by the Great Unwashed because it was
the
name of a switch on the first truly personal portable recording/playback
system.

** The Dolby brand was well known long before Walkmans appeared.

Did the first Walkmans even have Dolby?

** No, but later more expensive models did:

http://www.walkmancentral.com/products/wm-7



.... Phil

 

[Michael Black]

On Sat, 14 Sep 2013, Phil Allison wrote:

"dave is wrong "


The name dolby became well known by the Great Unwashed because it was the
name of a switch on the first truly personal portable recording/playback
system.

** The Dolby brand was well known long before Walkmans appeared.

Did the first Walkmans even have Dolby? I don't recall it being part of
it. It took time.

Nearly every cassette deck sold in the 1970s had the feature fitted - with
name and logo.

After the Advent, which made a splash since it seemed to be the first
cassette deck with Dolby. And a lot of the better car radios with
cassette players had Dolby.

Michael

Folk may not have understood it, or even called it " Dobly " as one of my
customers invariably did.



... Phil

 

[William Sommerwerck]

"Michael Black" wrote in message
news:alpine.LNX.2.02.1309140037160.12419@darkstar.example.org...

> Did the first Walkmans even have Dolby?

Dolby was initially implemented as discrete circuitry. I owned several
decks -- and a tuner -- with Dolby. It took up a fair amount of space. It
would have overflowed a Walkman, leaving no room for the amplification. Or the
transport.

 

[Adrian C]

On 14/09/2013 10:23, William Sommerwerck wrote:

"Michael Black" wrote in message
news:alpine.LNX.2.02.1309140037160.12419@darkstar.example.org...

Did the first Walkmans even have Dolby?

Dolby was initially implemented as discrete circuitry. I owned several
decks -- and a tuner -- with Dolby. It took up a fair amount of space.
It would have overflowed a Walkman, leaving no room for the
amplification. Or the transport.

What, a low pass filter?

(runs, ducks and hides)

--
Adrian C

 

[Phil Allison]

"William Sommerwerck"

"Michael Black"
Did the first Walkmans even have Dolby?

Dolby was initially implemented as discrete circuitry.

** Yes - in 1968.

It would have overflowed a Walkman,

** The first Walkman was in 1980.

Millions upon millions of Dolby B cassette decks had been sold by then -
most of them using custom Dolby B ICs.

Google it - fat boy.



.... Phil

 

[William Sommerwerck]

"Phil Allison" wrote in message news:b9irppFmatgU1@mid.individual.net...

** The first Walkman was in 1980.

1979.

 

[Phil Allison]

"William Sommerwanker = Cunt"

"Phil Allison"
** The first Walkman was in 1980.

1979.

** Only in Japan.

You bullshitting Fuck head

 

[William Sommerwerck]

"Phil Allison" wrote in message news:b9j3j8Fnu4kU1@mid.individual.net...
"William Sommerwanker = Cunt"

** The first Walkman was in 1980.

1979.

** Only in Japan.

I see know geographical qualification in your statement.

 

[Phil Allison]

"William Sommerwanker = Cunt"

** The first Walkman was in 1980.

1979.

** Only in Japan.

I see know geographical qualification in your statement.

** Think " context ".

You fucking pedantic moron.

 

Bickering aside, I think HX was the greatest thing since beer. I had some tape brands that I could record at +15 on the meters and they would come out clean. You practically don't need noise reduction when you can crank it that high. It was best on a three head deck too, when you can actually hear the output and adjust the level accordingly with an A/B comparison, while listening for distortion.

 

[William Sommerwerck]

wrote in message news:d9f060de-51b1-43a2-ba7d-c6a6e6f39e29@googlegroups.com...

Bickering aside, I think HX was the greatest thing since beer.
I had some tape brands that I could record at +15 on the meters
and they would come out clean. You practically don't need noise
reduction when you can crank it that high. It was best on a three-
head deck too, when you can actually hear the output and adjust
the level accordingly with an A/B comparison, while listening for
distortion.

If one wants to get picky, the principle underlying HX (self-bias) was
actually discovered by Bang & Olufsen.

 

[Guv Bob]

"Tim Schwartz" <tim@bristolnj.com> wrote in message news:l0v3hs$1qm$1@dont-email.me...

Just saw this blog. Ray certainly had a huge impact on the electronics
industry.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/09/12/221877517/ray-dolby-who-pioneered-recorded-sound-dies?ft=1&f=1001

Tim
Bristol Electronics

Thanks for posting this. Here's the obit with links to videos, etc, from the dolby website....

http://investor.dolby.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=790493

Ray Dolby was born in Portland, Oregon in January 1933 and his family eventually moved to the San Francisco Peninsula. From 1949 to 1957, he worked on various audio and instrumentation projects at Ampex Corporation where he led the development of the electronic aspects of the AmpexŽ videotape recording system. In 1957, he received a BS degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University.

Upon being awarded a Marshall Scholarship and a National Science Foundation graduate fellowship, Dr. Dolby left Ampex for further study at Cambridge University in England. In 1960, Dr. Dolby became the first American to be named a Fellow at Pembroke College.

Dr. Dolby received a PhD degree in physics from Cambridge in 1961 and years later was elected an Honorary Fellow (1983). While at Cambridge he met his wife, Dagmar, who was there as a summer student in 1962. During his last year at Cambridge, Dr. Dolby also served as a consultant to the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority.

In 1963, Dr. Dolby took up a two-year appointment as a United Nations advisor in India, and then returned to England in 1965 and founded Dolby Laboratories in London. In 1976, he moved to San Francisco where the company established its headquarters, laboratories, and manufacturing facilities.

Dr. Dolby is survived by his wife, Dagmar, his sons, Tom and David, their spouses, Andrew and Natasha, and four grandchildren. A celebration of his life will be held at a later date.

The family asks that, in lieu of flowers, donations are made to the Alzheimer's Association, 1060 La Avenida Street, Mountain View, CA 94043, or the Brain Health Center, c/o CPMC Foundation, 45 Castro Street, San Francisco, CA 94117.

The following materials are available for download at the following link:
https://dolby.box.com/s/n0szwpm4sylbcxgkekkk

- Quotes by and about Ray Dolby
- Still images
- Video assets

About Dolby Laboratories

Dolby Laboratories (NYSE: DLB) creates audio, video and voice technologies that transform entertainment and communications in mobile devices, at the cinema, at home, and at work. For nearly 50 years, sight and sound experiences have become more vibrant, clear and meaningful in Dolby. For more information please visit dolby.com.

Dolby Laboratories
Sean Durkin, Dolby Labs, 415-645-5176

Source: Dolby Laboratories

News Provided by Acquire Media

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Never met him, but I've known his licensing chap for decades.

It was a brilliant to set up a certification program so nothing would have to
be manufactured. All they did was certify that others used his system.
Virtual manufactuing first.


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[Phil Allison]

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Never met him, but I've known his licensing chap for decades.

It was a brilliant to set up a certification program so nothing would have
to
be manufactured. All they did was certify that others used his system.
Virtual manufactuing first.

** Philips made the Compact Cassette format available licence free as did
JVC with the VHS video cassette.

Same goes for the Compact Disk as well.

In each case, it was so the their system would become the industry standard.


.... Phil