Friday, January 7, 2005
Are You Ready for 13.1 Sound?
Posted by James Fee in "NEWS" @ 02:00 PM
"Dolby Digital Plus builds on the original Dolby Digital specifications, allowing for higher bit rates and more channels. Dolby Digital Plus has a maximum bit rate of 6mbps, and support for 13.1 channels. In comparison, Dolby Digital caps out at 640kbps and 5.1 channels. So Dolby Digital Plus essentially provides 10 times the bandwidth of the original Dolby Digital. The new format also allows for extremely low bit rate multichannel sound for streaming on the Web or over the air. The benefits of the Dolby Digital Plus codec include transient prenoise processing, enhanced channel coupling, adaptive hybrid transform processing, and channel and program extensions."
Ok, this is getting a little overboard. I mean really, who has room for 13 speakers in an average house? :roll:
Ok, this is getting a little overboard. I mean really, who has room for 13 speakers in an average house? :roll:
