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Mukunda Theatre installs first Dolby Atmos screen in Bengaluru
MUMBAI: Dolby Laboratories has launched its latest audio technology, Dolby Atmos, in Bengaluru.
Mukunda Theatre will be the first cinema in the state to offer the new technology to moviegoers starting 24 April, 2015.
Mukunda Theatre managing director G. Venkatesh Reddy said, “We take great pride in being the first ones to bring Dolby Atmos for the cinema to viewers in Bengaluru. It has always been our endeavor to use the latest technologies to provide the best cinematic entertainment experience to our audiences. Dolby Atmos is a major differentiator, providing greater definition and dimension to movies with its unique object-based approach to sound.”
Dolby Laboratories director, field marketing India Ashim Mathur added, “We are very excited to be working with Mukunda Theatre to bring Dolby Atmos to Bengaluru. Dolby Atmos continues to see great momentum in India and across the globe, as the leading next-generation sound format for theatres.”
Unlike traditional channel-based sound systems like 5.1, 7.1, and 11.1, which require filmmakers to think about the number and location of speakers, Dolby Atmos allows them to simply designate where in the cinema space each sound “object” should be placed or moved to make audiences experience the film as if they were within its world.
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Samsung India mobile chief quits after 18 years
Raju Antony Pullan’s exit leaves a gaping hole at the top as Chinese rivals tighten their grip
GURGAON: Raju Antony Pullan has had enough. The senior vice-president and head of Samsung India’s mobile phone business has put in his papers after 18 years at the Korean giant, a tenure long enough to have watched the company stride to the top of India’s smartphone market and then stumble, badly, as Chinese upstarts muscled in.
Pullan, who ran sales, marketing and every last function of the smartphone business, tendered his resignation on Thursday and is currently serving out his notice period. Samsung has not named a successor. It has a second line of leadership waiting in the wings, Aditya Babbar and Hiren Rathod among them, but no decision has been made on who steps up.
The timing is awkward. Samsung has been haemorrhaging market share to Chinese brands and now clings to a top-two position only in the premium segment, where it scraps it out with Apple. Losing the man who stewarded the mobile business through its best and worst years hardly helps steady the ship.
A company that once owned India’s smartphone market is now fighting to stay relevant in it. Pullan’s departure is less a footnote than a flashing red light.
