Total Sonics®, the licensing arm of THAT Corporation®, is pleased to announce agreements with TV technology powerhouse TiVo™, a division of Xperi®, and the Skyworth® Group, one of the world’s largest TV and appliance manufacturers. The agreement with TiVo allows them to integrate and distribute the patented Total Sonics audio enhancement technology suite along with TiVo firmware, enabling TV makers like Skyworth to provide their customers with the best possible sound experience on TiVo OS sets. TVs featuring Total Sonics’ technology are now available from Skyworth and their subsidiary, Metz, on sets with the TiVo OS and on Google® TV based designs.
With deep roots in delivering better sound to the professional and consumer audio markets, and with more than a billion devices worldwide using THAT Corp’s core technologies, the Total Sonics division has developed a suite of acclaimed audio enhancement technologies, including Total Sonics speaker optimization, Total Volume® loudness control, Total Surround® virtual surround sound, Total Cal® automated in-home tuning, and Total Bass™ psychoacoustic bass processing. Total Sonics has also partnered with Psy(x) Research to integrate Total Immersion™ virtual height processing into the Total suite. All of Total Sonics’ algorithms are designed with efficiency in mind and run on common SoCs and DSPs, improving sound quality without burdening TV’s, powered speakers, tablets and more with added cost, circuitry, or complexity.
According to Total Sonics’ Vice President, Tim Brault, “Since we’ve been actively demonstrating our algorithms’ capabilities, manufacturers of all sorts of products – from TV’s and powered speakers to mobile devices and PCs – have marveled at how well the Total Sonics suite improves the audio experience.”
Brault continues, “This appeals to manufacturers for several key reasons: our technology improves their product’s performance-to-value ratios by enabling less expensive products to perform at levels normally associated with more expensive designs. And they save cost by not requiring expensive additional componentry, and by shrinking the development time required to get products to market.”
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