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Default Dolby B/C software?

Richard Crowley wrote:
"Scott Dorsey" wrote...
Joe the audio guy wrote:
Another quick question: Is Dolby B/C available as software and, if not,
why?


This has been discussed repeatedly here, and a google search on the group
is in order.

There is one company selling a "cassette restoration package" that does
Dolby B decoding, but other than that nobody else seems to have
implemented
it, and I don't know why.


Are you saying that there are no patent barriers?


There are none on Dolby B. I believe the whole purpose of Dolby C was to
get something to markey when the Dolby B patent expired.

Dolby A also is no longer in patent, but SR sure is.
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