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Ray Dolby, whose inventions ………………………………………………………. the way audiences listen to entertainment, has died. He ……………………………………… 80 years old.
NPR's Mandalit del Barco ……………………………………………………… the sound pioneer - whose name ……………………………………………………… synonymous with sound - ……………………………………………………… at home in San Francisco.
……………………………………………………… Ray Dolby for inventing the system that ……………………………………………………… you with sound at the movie theater and in your headphones.
Dolby ……………………………………………………… a prolific inventor of so many innovations used in the film and recording industries. He ……………………………………………………… out in high school, ……………………………………………………… for the Ampex Corporation in the San Francisco Bay Area. There, Dolby ……………………………………………………… on the company's first audiotape recorder in 1949. Then in the 1950s, he ……………………………………………………… the chief designer of the first videotape recorder that ……………………………………………………… practical. He ……………………………………………………… degrees in electrical engineering and physics, and ……………………………………………………… as a technical advisor to the United Nations in India.
Then, in 1965, Dolby ……………………………………………………… his own audio company, Dolby Laboratories. That's where he ……………………………………………………… up with noise-reducing technology that ……………………………………………………… rid of annoying hiss on recordings. Here he is ……………………………………………………… to the Audio Engineering Society.
RAY DOLBY: I ……………………………………………………… to spend a lot of time ……………………………………………………… and ……………………………………………………… endless demonstrations to skeptical engineers all over the world who had been taught that noise reduction ……………………………………………………… impossible and that only charlatans ……………………………………………………… along once in a while with the promise of noise reduction.
Ray Dolby ……………………………………………………… a billionaire and a member of the Forbes 400. During his career, he ……………………………………………………… more than 50 patents, and ……………………………………………………… several Emmy awards, a Grammy and two Oscars for scientific and technical achievement.
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