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Related Party Transactions
 12 Months Ended
Sep. 26, 2025
Related Party Transactions [Abstract]  
Related Party Transactions Related Parties
We maintain contractual agreements relating to certain entities affiliated with the Dolby family, who is considered a related party as our principal stockholder. These jointly-owned entities were established for the purpose of acquiring and leasing commercial property in the U.S. and U.K. primarily for our operational use. Although the entities affiliated with the Dolby family hold a majority economic interest in such jointly-owned entities, they have a noncontrolling interest since they are the limited member or LP in each of these entities. Therefore, we have consolidated the entities’ assets and liabilities and results of operations in our consolidated financial statements. The share of earnings and net assets of the entities attributable to the limited member or LP, as the case may be, is reflected as noncontrolling interest in our consolidated financial statements.
As of September 26, 2025, we hold a 49.0% minority ownership interest in Dolby Properties Burbank, LLC, which owns a facility in Burbank that we are leasing until 2030. We also own 10.0% minority ownership interest in Dolby Properties, LP, which owns a facility in Wootton Bassett, England. We are no longer leasing the Wootton Bassett facility.
We also leased from our principal stockholder a commercial office building located at 100 Potrero Avenue in San Francisco, California under a term that expired on October 31, 2024.
Distributions
Distributions made by the jointly-owned real estate entities to our principal stockholder were as follows (in thousands):
 Fiscal Year Ended
 September 26,
2025		September 27,
2024		September 29,
2023
Distributions to principal stockholder$(250)$(262)$(266)