First High Definition Broadcast Of A Live Concert In DTS Surround Sound

Robbie Williams' Album-Launching Show Screened Live in DTS 5.1-Channel Sound in Nine Venues in the UK and Europe

DTS, Inc. has announced the success of the first European HD live broadcast into cinemas, with the exclusive Robbie Williams show, featuring high definition video and DTS 5.1-channel surround sound which took place on 9 October 2005. The extensively promoted show, which sold out within minutes, was broadcast live from the Velodrom in DTS Digital Surround^® to nine cinema locations in England, Germany, Sweden, Hungary and Croatia.

DTS was selected by igig.tv and In Good Company Co, to provide the 5.1-channel audio for this event, following the success of Robbie's Live At Knebworth album launch at Odeon Leicester Square in 2003. This latest Robbie project, presented by T-Mobile in association with Sony Ericsson and partnered by Sky HD, was technically produced by Shooting Partners Project Management, together with sister company Anna Valley Displays. Euro1080 provided the high definition satellite channel (HD2) and Tandberg satellite decoders to the cinemas.

This project highlighted DTS' end-to-end solution for alternate high definition E-cinema programming. The event demonstrated the latest developments in digital cinema and DTS digital broadcast technologies by delivering the highest achievable audio quality to movie theaters, and bringing movie-going fans as close an experience as possible to actually being at the concert itself.

A live 5.1-channel audio mix was created at the concert and encoded with DTS' CAE-5 professional broadcast encoder. The DTS bit-stream was multiplexed with HD video and delivered by satellite to the remote cinema locations. DTS' XD10 Cinema Media Player was used to decode the signal to the locations and to feed the multi-channel audio into the cinemas sound systems.