Real World Records Offers Free Download of a DTS Surround Music Track for the First Time
First Record Label to Utilize a DTS 5.1-Channel Track Download for Online Promotion
TWYFORD, United Kingdom--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 23, 2005--DTS (Digital Theater Systems, Inc.) (NASDAQ:DTSI - News) announces that Real World Records is promoting its new title Moksha by offering a free download of a unique DTS surround music version of the first track of the album. This is the first time that Real World Records has offered a promotional download of a DTS 5.1-channel track, which can be found at http://realworldrecords.com/amjad/. "This album gives the listener a variety of ragas, including some folk music from two beautiful states of India -- West Bengal and Himachal Pradesh," Amjad Ali Khan explained. "I just want listeners to enjoy the music and the feelings it creates without knowing any technical background. The surround download that Real World is offering in DTS truly submerges the listener."
York Tillyer, Interactive Director at Real World, commented: "The CD album release is stereo, but we recorded the album sessions in 5.1 and thought that offering a download of the multi-channel track in DTS would be a compelling promotion. This music is certainly an interesting alternative to many surround recordings currently available."
"This is a wonderful way for consumers to own a beautiful piece of music in DTS that they would not otherwise experience in surround sound," said Gerben van Duyl, Director of Business Development, Consumer for DTS.
About Real World Records
Launched in 1989, Real World Records has grown into a label of wide-ranging, world-class music from all corners of the globe. Many of the label's releases are recorded at Real World Studios where the live interactive spaces provide an environment capable of capturing the excitement and vitality of musicians "in performance" and can provide talented artists from around the world with access to state-of-the-art recording facilities and audiences beyond their geographic region.
Since the early days, Real World Records has been at the heart of a peaceful revolution in the music business. The label which grew from the success of the WOMAD festivals and Peter Gabriel's exploration of music from other cultures, releases recordings of superb musicians from all over the world. Before Real World, only with great determination, or a lot of traveling, was it possible to access music by artists working outside Western Europe and North America. Now, you can stroll into high street stores and find CDs of music from every continent, many of them bearing the Real World colour bar logo. There's an enormous variety of styles, moods and genres on CDs that bear this logo, but they all have one thing in common -- the quality of the recording and the production is superb.
For further information, please visit http://www.realworldrecords.com/.
About DTS
DTS (Digital Theater Systems, Inc.) (Nasdaq:DTSI - News) 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; Lowry 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 Digital Theater Systems, Inc.
Contact:
DTS Europe Nadine Haworth, +44 (0) 1189 828 633 nhaworth@dtsonline.co.uk or DTS North America Kristin Thomson, 818-706-3525 kthomson@dtsonline.com
Source: Digital Theater Systems, Inc
It works.
Open ExactAudioCopy, create New CUE, drop-in the file and burn it to CD.
Connect the digital output of your DVD player to a DTS-ready amp with a 75 ohm coax digital interconnect. Set the DVD output format to RAW.
The amp will realise this material as DTS and plays nicely.
Posted by: nansew3332 | December 18, 2005 at 02:12 AM
If it helps, I can offer that I got it working. I downloaded the file to my Mac, unzipped it, and burned the wav file to a CD-R as an audio file in Toast. My player (Denon 5900) accepted it as a DTS disc, and played it back just like Daved64 mentioned with DTS-only discs like McCartney's. Decoding worked both on the player going through the analog connections I use for DVD-A/SACD, as well as the digital stream via coax at my preamp. Perhaps it is a corrupted download?
Posted by: Marty | May 26, 2005 at 12:34 PM
Sorry, I forgot to add I DO play it back on my Pioneer 45a DVD player, which decodes the DTS.
Posted by: Daved64 | May 24, 2005 at 01:24 PM
Cd. It's a wav file, just like my Dark Side DTS quad mix CD, and just like other DTS cd's I have (Band On The Run, etc.....). Might have been an error in the download as my Antivir popped up during the process.
Posted by: Daved64 | May 24, 2005 at 08:22 AM
Didn't try it myself...did you burn it on to a cd or a dvd? DTS requires dvd playback...
Posted by: Ron Wheeler | May 24, 2005 at 07:25 AM
Tried it. Downloaded it. Burned it. Didn't play. Got worried and played my DTS Parson's Quad mix of Floyd's Dark Side......worked ok. So I dunno.
Posted by: Daved64 | May 23, 2005 at 10:31 PM