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Chris -- 2011-03-08
Unless there’s a sound engineer called Ray Doubly somewhere out there, I think what we have here is a reverse-Lehman. Anyone unfamiliar with Dolby might eggcornify his name into doubly, suggesting 100% sound enhancement:
About the speaker, it is built with stereo and doubly surround system. It also has function to control the volume of bass and treble. ...
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Projection facilities 4mX1.8m screen for digital viewing and power point presentations Wireless broadband Doubly surround system …
It [the effect of noise] is like a doubly surround system now. The disturbed are many and the players few. After all, we are not a university offering …
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The screen is 3D with doubly surround system. The modern equipments and technologies aid and assist the industry of films to prosper and flourish in New …
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I know I’m a bit slow to comment here, years later; not very quick at repartee….
From the mockrockumentary, This Is Spinal Tap
Musician’s girlfriend: “you can’t do ‘eavy metal in Dobly…”
I guess the sources sighted cited above wouldn’t have got the joke if they saw the film.
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Was it “Dobly” or “doubly?” http://www.spinaltapfan.com/elwin/TIST/Stonehenge.txt
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This must have been inspired by the Tap, too, then.
The prospect of faster internet
won’t make a difference though as content will just get bigger to fill it – i.e. the pron will be in full HD with dublin surround sound etc
Reply: Porn; Dolby; :eye roll:
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