THAT Corporation Expands Licensing Portfolio

THAT Digital TV Audio Licensing Lab

Milford, MA – THAT Corporation has recently expanded its dbx-tv® line of digital TV audio decoding software to cover legacy TV audio standards worldwide, including BTSC, NICAM, A2 and EIA-J.

THAT is well known for holding key patents covering portions of the US BTSC standard for TV audio, which it has licensed to nearly every manufacturer of broadcast equipment or TV receivers around the world. Les Tyler, THAT’s president, stated, “For many years, THAT has offered licenses to IC makers for digital implementations of BTSC encoder and decoder ICs. Chips based on our Verilog® BTSC code are ideal for digital products like PVRs, DVD-Rs, and high-definition TV sets.”

Tyler went on to say, “We’ve developed decoder Verilog code that extends our previous intellectual property offerings well beyond BTSC, now covering all worldwide legacy TV standards, including A2, NICAM, and EIA-J. This code makes it easy for IC, and TV receiver makers to include digital reception of legacy TV audio along with the newer digital forms of recording and broadcast.”

Licenses to this new code are available now. The technology will be marketed under the dbx-TV brand name.

About THAT Corporation
THAT Corporation, founded in 1989, designs and sells high-performance analog integrated circuits for professional audio manufacturers. THAT’s ICs include analog input and output stages, digitally controlled low-noise preamplifiers, Analog Engines® and its original line of voltage-controlled amplifiers (VCAs) – all used throughout the pro audio industry. The company also licenses patents, trademarks, and other intellectual property to the TV broadcast and reception industries. Licensed products include the dbx-tv® Total™ series of audio enhancement technology and digital implementations of legacy TV audio receiver standards. The company is headquartered in Milford, Massachusetts, with offices in Milpitas, California.

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THAT Corporation, 45 Sumner Street, Milford, MA 01757-1656 , USA
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