Originally Posted By: XenonMan
Translating from 5.1 to 7.1 isn't all that great so I can imagine that the extra channels are just remixes of the surround channels. How does the system know what is a height/wide channel and what is a surround channel? Is the position of the audio somehow encoded in the track or does the system guess?

I don't know about Dolby PLIIz, but Audyssey's DSX is reproducing at the Wide and Height locations what one would hear in the "Great Halls" that they modeled. But they might be doing some other stuff as well. And I would bet that they are evangelizing the technology to the movie industry trying to get mixers to put discrete content in the DSX channels.

Basically, it expands the front soundstage .. and quite convincingly as well!


Edited by pepar (03/06/11 01:23 PM)
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