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New Product Releases

Fox Home Entertainment and JVC demonstrates
DTS 5.1 on D-Theater D-VHS at the JVC
D-ILA Theater Zone in Beverly Hills, CA

Fox and JVC recently hosted a press demonstration featuring previews of the upcoming releases of X2: X-Men United and Moulin Rouge in the D-Theater™ encryption format. Both of these titles are due to be released on November 25th. The new titles will feature DTS® Digital Surround at the full bit rate of 1509 kbps. A Dolby Digital soundtrack will also be included. The DTS audio was added as an option to the existing D-Theater software platform which currently includes Dolby Digital and MPEG Audio (MPEG 1 Layer 2) as mandatory audio streams.

Fox, JVC and DTS representatives were there to answer questions at the presentation. A/B comparisons were demonstrated with DTS and Dolby Digital using the D-VHS format. Video quality was also compared beween D-VHS and DVD. Video was projected from a JVC D-ILA projector onto a Stewart FireHawk filmscreen. Image quality was stunning with the D-VHS format, while the DVD version appeared blurry in comparison.

If you happen to be one of the 30,000 owners of the first generation D-VHS D-Theater machines (JVC HM-DH30000U), you'll probably start kicking and screaming when you find out the new DTS audio on D-Theater will not work on your machine. You'll still be able to play Dolby Digital, but you have no way to output the DTS bitstream from these new tapes. However, JVC does have a new model (HM-DH40000U) that supports this feature. In addition, Marantz has the MV8300 D-Theater D-VHS unit that is also fully compatible with the new DTS tapes.

True Lies. Speed and League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen will follow on December 16th. These D-VHS D-Theater titles will have a suggested retail price of $34.98 each.

Susan Wright (Bender/Helper Impact) and Beth McClinton (Fox Home Entertainment)

DTS Achieves Another Milestone: 200 Million DTS-Licensed Consumer Electronics Products Sold To Date

DTS (Digital Theater Systems, Inc.) (Nasdaq: DTSI) has reached another landmark in its consumer electronics business: More than 200 million consumer electronics products containing DTS-licensed technology or intellectual property have been sold worldwide.

Unit sales of consumer electronics products with DTS technology or intellectual
property reached 3,000 units in its first year of availability, and reached
100 million units as of August 2002. DTS-licensed products include DVD
players, receivers, amplifiers, pre-amps, video game consoles, car audio
processors and head units, PC-based software decoders and 5.1-channel
speaker systems for the PC. More than 200 consumer electronics manufacturers
worldwide license DTS technology today.

In addition to consumer electronics products, DTS licenses its technology to the pro audio industry and distributes its own encoder/decoder units via a global dealer network. DTS can also be found on many DVD-Video titles, its own DTS Entertainment-branded 5.1 Music Discs and DVD-Audio titles, as well as video games for the PlayStation®2.

Team DTS at the Surround 2001 Conference

(Pictured left-to-right, Kristin Thomson - Director of Public Relations, Ingrid Powell - DTS Entertainment Marketing Coordinator, Korilyn Colburn, Scott Esterson - Pro-Audio Sales Manager)

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