DTS and Unified Streaming Expand Support for Layered Audio to Include HLS and Microsoft Smooth Streaming

(Calabasas, California--April 8, 2014) DTS, Inc. (Nasdaq: DTSI), a leader in high-definition audio solutions, and Unified Streaming, a provider of cross-platform video streaming technologies, collaboratively announced today an extension of their existing relationship to incorporate the DTS Layered Audio Stream Reconstruction SDK into the Unified Streaming Platform to encompass support for HLS and Microsoft Smooth Streaming. At NAB 2013, Unified Streaming and DTS announced their first collaboration involving the DTS-HD Layered Audio codec, specifically for MPEG-DASH. By adding support for the DTS Layered Audio Stream Reconstruction SDK, streaming services will now be able to realize the full benefits of using the DTS-HD Layered Audio technology as an efficient adaptive bit-rate solution via the industry's three leading streaming protocols, including HLS, Microsoft Smooth Streaming and MPEG-DASH.