In article ,
Phil Allison wrote:


" Dave Plowman = Pommy **** "


** A ****ing, criminal nut case TROLL like YOU has no right to breathe.

FOAD

ASAP.

So that'll be a 'don't know', then?

Tell me, do you go to the bother of actually typing out things or just cut
and paste?

Is it true you look like a down and out Les Patterson?

Or is that too big an insult? To Sir Les?

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*It's o.k. to laugh during sexŒ.Œ.just don't point!

Dave Plowman London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.

charles wrote:

I met him once at TVC when there was an idea of Dolby processing video
coming out of the original 625/405 standards converters (mid 60s). It got
rid of the noise, but showed up nasty artifacts instead. His comment "Open
the window and all the **** flies in!"

I'm sure you can forgive him Charles. He was, after all, an American.

Bill

Phil Allison wrote:

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.

Like many well-know phrases and sayings* this is wrong. It is perfectly
possible to polish a coprolite.

*anyone remember how this expression became popular?

Bill

"Bill Wright"

Phil Allison wrote:

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.

Like many well-know phrases and sayings* this is wrong. It is perfectly
possible to polish a coprolite.

*anyone remember how this expression became popular?


** Allegedly it was first said by Jerry Lewis to Stanley Kubrick.

Who replied " You can if you freeze it " .



..... Phil

"Bill Wright"
charles wrote:

I met him once at TVC when there was an idea of Dolby processing video
coming out of the original 625/405 standards converters (mid 60s). It
got
rid of the noise, but showed up nasty artifacts instead. His comment
"Open
the window and all the **** flies in!"

I'm sure you can forgive him Charles. He was, after all, an American.


** But he developed his ideas while studying at Cambridge University.

Story goes, he had a pair mic lines installed running from his room to the
nearby chapel that was used for musical performances - choirs and such.

The sound quality direct from the mics was, naturally enough, quite superb.

But when he used a 1/4 inch tape recorder, the playback was spoilt by noise.

He figured, there must be a way to fix this ....


.... Phil

Phil Allison wrote:

quite impossible to polish a turd.

But it's easy to roll them in glitter ...

In article , Phil Allison
scribeth thus

"tony sayer"

One of the "great's" of audio has just passed away...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-24075429


** Great at what, exactly ???



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.



By that you mean Analogue tape media which as you may well remember was
the only viable medium for recording both pro and domestic for many
years until the advent of usable digital media...

--
Tony Sayer

In article , Bill Wright
scribeth thus
Phil Allison wrote:

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.

Like many well-know phrases and sayings* this is wrong. It is perfectly
possible to polish a coprolite.

*anyone remember how this expression became popular?

Bill

Never heard of that before and they dug coprolite just a mile from
here;!...

--
Tony Sayer

In article , Jim Lesurf
scribeth thus
In article , Dave Plowman (News)
wrote:


His major achievement to me was Dolby digital for optical film
soundtracks. Turned lo-fi into hi-fi at a stroke. Without making the
prints more expensive.

Indeed. In terms of sound quality I suspect his work on the 'pro' side did
more good than on the consumer side. Although Dolby-B for audiocassette was
a big help when employed correctly so of use to many people.

I did once hear Angus McKenzie demonstrate a Nakamichi tri tracer
cassette machine compared to a Studer running at 15 IPS at an audio show
once, and seeing the narrow cassette slow tape compared to that, it was
very impressive indeed...


There was a rather strange tribute to him on R4 earlier today where they
spoke to his name-alike popstar. He did a good job of demonstrating how
Dolby-B could help cut down intrusive tape noise of audiocassette.

Then rather spoiled his expert status by saying something rather odd to the
effect that later on people like him abandoned Dolby-B because it limited
how much HF they could get onto cassette and the trend was to shove more
on.

Erm... Maybe he doesn't know the system is adaptive. Wasn't very clear.



Expert?, BBC?, don't make oi larff;!...

Slainte,

Jim


--
Tony Sayer

In article , Mike O'Sullivan
scribeth thus
On 13/09/2013 17:26, Jim Lesurf wrote:

a big help when employed correctly so of use to many people.

There was a rather strange tribute to him on R4 earlier today where they
spoke to his name-alike popstar. He did a good job of demonstrating how
Dolby-B could help cut down intrusive tape noise of audiocassette.

I heard this. I thought it a misleading demo. The speaker implied that
you just "push the Dolby button" on playback to reduce the hiss. Surely
it should have been said that the RECORDING had to be with Dolby on
before any benefit could be observed on playback?

Yes very much the case for the B and C versions, but of course it would
have reduced the "noise" even more if it hadn't been encoded ;/.....
--
Tony Sayer