Cameron

didn't candlestick park get a new name too...what was that again...

from davis dvd

Lowry Digital Images Becomes

DTS Digital Images


Agoura Hills, CA (September 15, 2005) -- DTS, Inc. announced today that Lowry Digital Images has officially changed its name to DTS Digital Images. DTS acquired Lowry Digital Images, a leader in image restoration and enhancement in January 2005.

A Burbank, California-based technology developer and service provider, DTS Digital Images, formerly Lowry Digital Images, is a leader in restoring and enhancing moving pictures, whether captured on film or in digital form. DTS Digital Images uses highly advanced, proprietary image processing algorithms designed to improve picture quality and resolution and to remove unwanted artifacts. DTS Digital Images' founder, John D. Lowry, is a long-time image specialist who first gained industry recognition for his work on images transmitted from the moon during the Apollo 16 and 17 missions in the 1970s. Since its inception in 1998, DTS Digital Images has processed more than 100 of the world's most recognized feature films for output to broadcast television, DVD, 35mm film and IMAX presentations.

The decision to change the company's name reflects DTS Digital Images integration with DTS, as well as DTS' diversification beyond audio technologies. John Lowry will continue to oversee DTS Digital Images' technology development and projects as Chief Technology Officer.

"As DTS moves forwards, brand integration is an important aspect of our identity and business," said Jon Kirchner, President and CEO of DTS. "DTS now offers high definition solutions for images as well as sound to enhance the entertainment experience, whether it is in the theater, home or car, and this new branding underscores our dedication to the growth not only of DTS Digital Images, but DTS as a whole."

About DTS Digital Images

Founded in 1998, DTS Digital Images, formerly Lowry Digital Images, is a market leader in digital restoration and enhancement of moving pictures. The stunning quality DTS Digital Images delivers is based on a series of groundbreaking image processing algorithms developed by the company's founder, John Lowry, who revolutionized video imaging processing in the 1970s; his first breakthrough inventions were used on live video signals from the Apollo 16 and 17 missions. Since its inception, DTS Digital Images has applied its image processing magic to more than 100 of the world's most recognized feature films with output to broadcast television, DVD, 35mm and IMAX. Recent restorations include the Indiana Jones and Star Wars trilogies. DTS Digital Images is a subsidiary of DTS, Inc.

About DTS

DTS, Inc. is a digital technology company dedicated to delivering the ultimate entertainment experience. DTS decoders are in virtually every major brand of 5.1-channel surround processors, and there are more than 300 million DTS-licensed consumer electronics products available worldwide. A pioneer in multi-channel audio, DTS technology is in home theatre, car audio, PC and game console products, as well as DVD-Video, Surround Music and DVD-ROM software. DTS audio products are featured on more than 24,000 motion picture screens worldwide. Additionally, DTS provides imaging technology and services for the motion picture industry; DTS Digital Images, a wholly-owned subsidiary of DTS, is an industry leader in image restoration and enhancement. Founded in 1993, DTS is headquartered in Agoura Hills, California and has offices in the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Canada, Japan and China. For further information, please visit www.dtsonline.com.

DTS is a registered trademark of DTS, Inc.



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PatrickMcCart

Finally, there's a good (though, incomplete) list of their work:

* Absent Minded Professor (I guess it's the B&W 1.66:1 16x9 remaster)
* Aliens of the Deep
* Alice in Wonderland (Beautiful!)
* All the President's Men
* Avengers (The TV show?)
* Bambi (4K from 3-strip)
* Black Cauldron (Disney must be sitting on this for a while)
* Born Too Soon (TV Movie) [Weird choice]
* Brief Encounter
* Casablanca (On the 2-disc SE)
* Citizen Kane
* Curse of Frankenstein, The
* Darling (MGM put this out non-anamorphic, though)
* Doctor Zhivago
* Empires Strikes Back, The
* Gaslight (probably the 1944 version)
* Ghoul, The
* Giant
* Godfather, The (I guess Paramount did get LDI to work on these, anyways)
* Godfather II, The
* Great Race, The (Terrific)
* Henry V (probably not the Criterion DVD, but an MGM version)
* Importance of Being Earnest (possibly the Criterion DVD)
* Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
* Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
* The In-Laws (the original, probably)
* Keep, The
* Lady Vanishes, The
* Little Women (Probably the 1933 version)
* Love Bug, The (Interesting...)
* Madeleine
* Making of the Shining, The
* Mercenary
* Mildred Pierce (This was speculated for a while)
* Moby Dick (The current DVD?)
* Moulin Rouge
* North by Northwest
* Now Voyager
* Oliver Twist
* Once Upon a Time in the West
* Passionate Friends, The
* Peter Pan (on SE)
* Pinocchio (still not released)
* Pocahontas (on SE)
* Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (is this the current DVD?)
* Prizzi's Honor (is this the current DVD?)
* Return of the Jedi
* Roman Holiday
* Rose Tatoo, The
* Sabotage (Hitchcock)
* Scarlet Pimpernel (which version?)
* Silly Symphonies - Cookie Carnival (Checked on Silly Symphonies WDT and not sure if it's their work)
* Singin' In the Rain
* Sleeping Beauty (Odd, since it's Technirama and Cinesite worked on it)
* Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
* Spirit of St. Louis (This seems to be in the pipeline)
* Star Wars
* Stranger in My Bed
* Sunset Boulevard
* Them (Speculated for a while)
* This Happy Breed
* THX-1138
* Tweety, Tweet Tweet (Checked LT GC 1 and it's great!)
* Young and Innocent

They apparently work on all IMAX DMR blow-ups and the first 19 James Bond films are in the pipeline. Also, they did an episode of The West Wing and are possibly working on The Young Indiana Jones chronicles.

What's ironic is that none of the LDI remasters feature a DTS audio track.

Josh Z

This must be for an as-yet-unreleased DVD. I realize that the movie has a very tiny cult audience, but I can hardly imagine any studio feeling it worthy of a full-scale restoration effort. I mean, I know that it has some camp appeal, but have they actually seen it?

The acquisition by DTS just happened recently. In the past, the decisions over audio formats were made exclusively by the studios who paid Lowry for the work. I would imagine that going forward it will be in the contract that a DTS audio track must be a mandatory part of any Lowry restoration.

djtoell

That would be an idiotic business decision by DTS. Force potential customers seeking purely image restoration of mono films that they have no intention of remixing into stereo? That would not only increase the cost of such restorations, it would force studios to purchase a service that they have no interest in (e.g., would Warner really want to spend even a minimal amount of money on a DTS audio track for Mildred Pierce? That would be nonsensical). If DTS will be so pompous as to require that in image restoration I contracts, I hope they get smacked down and lose out on lucrative restoration contracts from major studios. It would be a good wake-up call for their ego.

DJ

Terrell

Couldn't agree more. Then again, I think DTS Digital Images is a stupid name. They should have left the name alone. Lowry built that company from nothing Well, we know one thing. Lowry, I mean DTS Digital Images, won't get anymore work from Lucas if that's the case. They probably will lose a lot of other films as well.

K.O.P.

But there is such a beast as DTS mono, isn't there?

djtoell

I believe that's been used a total of once, on Spielberg's intro to Saving Private Ryan on the DTS variant of the original release. Anyway, that would still be an unnecessary expense on the part of the studio and a big waste of space on the disc. 768kb/s for a mono track when a DD or PCM track is required? There's no need for it. Even a very generous DD bitrate of 384kb/s for a 1.0 track would be sufficient. Having another mono track would be truly duplicative, and it would cut into the total available space and peak bitrate available on the disc's video portion containing the image restoration that the studio actually wanted in the first place.

DJ

K.O.P.

I was thinking of theatrical releases, specifically Woody Allen’s films for Dreamworks, the point being that DTS does not have to mean multi-channel.

djtoell

Theatrical DTS is an entirely different codec than home video DTS. Sure, a mono variant of home DTS can be made to exist. It is, however, quite rare (unlike, say, Dolby Digital mono) and not what DTS is really in the business of doing. Back when DTS was mixing their own tracks for home video (before the encoder was released for use by the studios), I don't think they ever produced a soundtrack with less than 5.1 channels. Multichannel sound is their intended forte.

The minutae doesn't really matter. The point is that when someone hires a company to do image restoration, they shouldn't be strongarmed into also purchasing audio mixing and/or encoding services. I don't get my shoes shined by someone that makes me buy a pair of socks, too. That kind of shortsighted business model is one that can easily drive away customers, and many other entities (both in-house and outside to the studios) will be ready to pick up the contracts that DTS would lose.

DJ

K.O.P.

And I totally agree with you on that point, DJ.