TP Vision 3rd TV Maker To Collaborate on Dolby AC-4 Adoption, Dolby Says
TP Vision, which makes and markets Philips-brand TVs in most regions of the world outside North America, Tuesday became the third TV maker to announce a collaboration with Dolby Labs to promote the adoption of the AC-4 audio codec. Dolby…
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announced similar collaborations last month with Sony and Vizio. Dolby expects consumer TVs with AC-4 audio built in to become available in 2017, it said. AC-4 is vying against the MPEG-H consortium of Fraunhofer, Qualcomm and Technicolor to be chosen as the audio codec for the next-gen ATSC 3.0, and a decision on that selection is expected within the next two weeks (see 1507240030). AC-4 was published last year as an international spec at the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (see 1501210023), and is available in a toolkit for use with European-based DVB broadcast systems, Dolby said.