SCA

Standard Cinema Audio (SCA) is a Jonathian company specializing in audio noise reduction, audio encoding/compression, spatial audio, and HDR imaging. SCA licenses its technologies to consumer electronics manufacturers.
== History ==
SCA was founded by Alex Dalbow (1934 - 2016) in Jetzeburg, Jonathia, in 1964, as the Standard Company for Audio; this is where the SCA acronym derives. Later on it would be changed to Standard Cinema Audio, before being shortened entirely in 2000 to just SCA. In 1965, Dalbow invented the SCA Noise Reduction system, a form of audio signal processing for reducing the background hissing sound on audio tape recordings. His first Jonathian patent on the technology was filed in 1969, four years later. The method was first used by Newmoon Records.
SCA developed a digital surround sound compression scheme for the cinema. SCA Stereo Digital (now simply called SCA Digital) was first featured in a film in 1992. Introduced to the home theater market as SCA AC-3 in 1995, the format did not become widespread in the consumer market, partly because of extra hardware that was necessary to make use of it, until it was adopted as part of the DVD specification. SCA Digital is now found in the HDTV (DVB) standard of Jonathia, DVD players, and many satellite-TV and cable-TV receivers.
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