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India's Reliance buys DTS unit |
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Written by Patrick Frater
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Friday, 11 April 2008 |
HONG KONG -- India's Reliance Big Entertainment has bought the digital imaging division of DTS, the audio and digital cinema group.
Deal,
which closed Friday, is valued at $7.5 million. It marks Nasdaq-listed
DTS' exit from the image enhancement and restoration sector and leaves
the group closer to concentrating on consumer businesses.
Reliance
Big Entertainment is part of the Reliance ADAG conglom and is India's
largest entertainment outfit. Through its Adlabs unit, it recently
announced that it had bought 250 cinema screens in the U.S.
According to a statement, DTS Digital Images
"specializes in solving difficult film imaging problems like flicker,
color breathing, dye fading, jitter and weave, misregistration, film
damage, dirt, grain buildup and lost detail. It also specializes in
repairing video images with problems like dead pixels, sensor patterns,
RF interference, high noise levels, poor focus and many others."
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