Sentence examples for digital sound system from inspiring English sources

But the Dolby digital sound system is bang up to date.

Unhappy with the possibility that its only movie theater, the Palace, could close, he bought it and invested $1 million to refurbish its interior and install a digital sound system.

2. GAMING SOUND SYSTEM If the fidelity of your video game's crash-and-burns is not earthshaking enough, try plugging your game console into Creative's new Cambridge Soundworks Playworks PS2000 Digital sound system.

It then branched into providing a digital sound system for theaters and homes, which is licensed under the name THX, after Lucas' first movie.

The term was popularized in the early 1990s, however, to describe PCs that incorporate high-capacity optical (laser) memory devices and digital sound systems.

Devised by Dolby Laboratories as a home equivalent of the digital sound systems used in theaters, that format creates a surround-sound effect by channeling discrete channels of audio to as many as six speakers: three front, two rear and one limited-range, low-frequency effects channel that reproduces the booms and explosions heard in action films (that's the ".1" in "5.1").

The cause of the problem was a spate of overbuilding in the late 1990's, as theater owners attempted to compete with fresh enemies like home theater systems by creating new auditoriums with "stadium seating," digital sound systems and rocking business-class seats with cup-holders.

At the high end of the PC market, multimedia personal computers equipped with DVD players and digital sound systems allowed users to handle animated images and sound (in addition to text and still images) that were stored on high-capacity DVD-ROMs.

In later years, Lucas would break through even more barriers by pushing for digital sound systems in theaters, and then using computers to edit films.

To make up for the drop in admissions, major circuits have been squeezing more money out of existing customers by offering premium services, such as new digital sound systems, plush seating and more elaborate food and beverage services.

Technical standards still are being developed by engineers, and digital projection may suffer through the same kind of "format war" that has led to three incompatible digital sound systems for theaters.