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Credit inflation is an old tradition in Hollywood, most egregiously practiced by so-called "producers". It's hard for me to get too worked up over Dolby being a little grandiose in their credit.
If I counted all the films that I worked on over the years where I didn't even get a credit (not counting the ones that spelled my name wrong or had me attached to the wrong job) my resume would be three times as long as IMDB lists, but the fact is that after the first couple of dozen or so, it really doesn't matter much.
I've seen all sorts of credit lists from people that have them working on films in capacities that I know they didn't or that they didn't work on at all. I don't think anybody ever checks the credit roll at the end of the films to make sure the person's resume is honest. As a matter of fact, I don't even check the credits of the films I work on to make sure my credit is correct anymore.
Next time you go to a movie, stick around to the last credit and then count the number of people still in the theater. Management will probably have turned the lights on already so the cleaning crew can get started, so it should be easy to get an accurate count.
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