SHANGHAI, China–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Dolby Laboratories, Inc. (NYSE:DLB) today announced that Lenovo has launched the Tianyi F50, its first notebook to feature Dolby Home Theater, a suite of technologies that offer advanced home theater audio features and premium surround sound experiences.

Dolby Home Theater places listeners amidst the drama, excitement, and emotion of their favorite music, movies, and games and offers LenovoTM Tianyi F50 users the freedom and flexibility to enjoy surround sound experiences in a variety of playback environments. Lenovo Tianyi F50 owners can also enjoy a vast library of music and more than 17,400 films worldwide that use Dolby technologies.

Multiple Dolby technologies within the Lenovo Tianyi F50 address a broad spectrum of lifestyle needs and listening situations. For listeners who enjoy music or movies late at night, the Lenovo Tianyi F50 offers virtual surround sound over any set of headphones. For listeners at home who need a simple, inexpensive way to enhance their entertainment, the Lenovo Tianyi F50 delivers virtual surround sound using just two speakers. For people with entertainment systems, the Lenovo Tianyi F50 can easily be integrated with a home theater or audio/video receiver to deliver 5.1 channels of audio through speakers.

The Lenovo Tianyi F50 supports all of the following Dolby technologies within Dolby Home Theater:

* Dolby Digital, which delivers rich, engaging surround sound for a better entertainment experience
* Dolby Digital Live, which makes it easy to connect a PC to an A/V receiver using a single digital cable, eliminating the confusion, hassle, and clutter of multiple connections
* Dolby Pro Logic® II, which expands any stereo DVD movie, music, video game, or broadcast audio signal into an enhanced 5.1-channel surround sound experience and creates a natural surround sound field that delivers a more vivid and realistic entertainment experience
* Dolby Headphone technology, which enables people to enjoy a virtual 5.1-channel surround sound experience from any set of headphones without disturbing others and provides an ideal way to listen to music or watch DVD movies on a laptop late at night
* Dolby Virtual Surround, which delivers a virtual 5.1-channel surround sound experience from just two speakers so people can enjoy great audio from PCs in smaller spaces, including apartments, college dormitories, and dens, and eliminates the need to buy extra speakers, wires, or speaker stands to enjoy great surround sound

“The Lenovo Tianyi F50 offers all the features, power, and flexibility you’d expect from a great PC, but can also deliver a world-class entertainment experience that compares with many leading consumer electronics devices,” said Greg Rodehau, Director, PC Business Segment, Dolby Laboratories. “Today more than 400 million consumer devices from the world’s leading companies use Dolby technologies to enhance the entertainment experience, and we’re happy to provide Lenovo notebook users a broad range of our audio technologies so they can enjoy their favorite music, movies, and games in surround sound.” - Businesswire.com

This entry was posted on November 21, 2006 and is filed under Lenovo, News.