Friday, August 24, 2018

DTS Signs New Play-Fi Hardware Partner

Calabasas-based DTS, which develops surround sound and other audio technology, said it has signed up a new hardware partner for its DTS Play-Fi technology. DTS Play-Fi allows manufacturers to implement their own wireless, whole-home audio systems. DTS--which is now a subsidiary of Xperi Corporation--said that it has signed up International Audio Group (IAG), a hardware partner which owns the Audiolab, Mission, QUAD and Wharfedale brands, as a partner. IAG will integrate DTS Play-Fi technology in its amplifiers, receivers, soundbars and speakers, according to the company. Financial details of the technology licensing deal were not announced. The DTS Play-Fi technology is being used by manufacturers hoping to compete against such whole-home audio systems as those from another local company, Sonos, and so far has been adopted by such brands as Aerix, Anthem, Arcam, Definitive Technology, DISH TV, Elite, Integra, Fusion Research, Klipsch, MartinLogan, McIntosh, Onkyo, Paradigm, Phorus, Pioneer, Polk Audio, Rotel, Sonus faber, Soundcast, SVS Sound, THIEL Audio, and Wren Sound.

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