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I would be curious to know how much of that $1200 was a license fee to Dolby, and how much of the $300 for the Premiere plug-in is a license fee to Dolby. However, Sonic Foundry charged about $1200 for Soft Encode, and it, too, was just an encoder. I think Dolby will recognize that we are consumers and not corporations, and that Dolby loses money if they price exorbitantly.ĭon notes that a Dolby Digital plug-in for Adobe Premier is $300, and he thinks that is too much for just an encoder. There is no reason this can't be a win-win-win deal, with us users getting surround sound support, Dolby getting a fair fee for it, and Sonic Foundry getting more customers and more income. As it stands now, Dolby is missing out on a lot of Sonic Foundry money that could be flowing into their coffers and surely someone at Dolby has the business sense to realize that is not a good thing. The volume discounts could be considerable, and if the volume were sufficient the discounts would probably be open to negotiation between Dolby and Sonic Foundry. Yes, I'm sure there are probably volume discounts, but the cost is still a per sale item rather than one time only." < SonicFoundry doesn't pay just one license fee to add the technology to all of it's shipments. > "However, a Dolby license is a fee that must be added to every package shipped. But I am impatient to dabble in surround sound now. However, I don't know when Dolby AC3 will pass into the public domain. I think Dolby probably protects their system with more than one patent. In my opinion, Dolby won because they didn't have any competiton that was better. The optional DTS scheme gives good surround, but the audio files are about twice as big. Nobody could knock them off of that perch. Well, Dolby got there first with the best surround sound audio compression solution.
"I suspect that everyone would include an AC3 encoder if it was affordable, but unfortunatly, Dolby Labs charges a huge licensing fee." "So anyway, how did Dolby get the DVD Forum to endorse AC3 that the ONLY acceptable compressed audio on NTSC DVDs?" <