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All About DTS Surround Sound

Diana Joan

Aug 31, 2014 06:44 pm / Posted by Diana Joan | Categories: Knowledge

In the home theater market, AC-3 and DTS are close in terms of audio performance. Digital Theater Systems (DTS) is a family of lossy formats designed for the efficient encoding of surround sound, originally developed to support motion picture presentations in theaters. This Web page provides general, introductory information about the whole family.

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Created in 1993 for the soundtrack of Steven Spielberg’s blockbuster film Jurassic Park, DTS surround sound quickly made its way onto Laserdiscs and then ultimately to DVD in the mid-1990s as a popular alternative to Dolby Digital. DTS, like Dolby Digital, is a lossy (compressed) surround sound format capable of discrete 5.1 and 6...

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All About Dolby Digital (AC3)

Diana Joan

Aug 30, 2014 06:33 pm / Posted by Diana Joan | Categories: Knowledge

Dolby Digital (code-named AC3) is a compressed, lossy surround sound format that boomed with the rise in popularity of DVD in the late 1990s and early 2000s. It is also the standard audio format for HDTV programming. With one digital cable from a DVD player and ultimately other sources like satellite and digital cable boxes, home theater enthusiasts could get discrete surround sound for six or more channels. This means that they could hear unique sounds coming from each of their rear speakers, which created much more detailed, cinema-like surround sound effects at home.

Dolby Digital (AC3)

Dolby Digital was preceded by Dolby Pro Logic, a 4.0 format found on many VHS tapes.

With the advent of Blu-ray, Dolby released two new codecs for the new disc format...

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