Chris Posted January 9, 2005 Report Share Posted January 9, 2005 Are you ready for 13.1 sound? Dolby Digital Plus features more than 10 times the bandwidth of Dolby Digital. LAS VEGAS--Dolby Digital has seen some enhancements over the years as it's become the most common multichannel standard. But in the not-so-distant future, it's going to get a huge overhaul. At CES, Dolby gave Dolby Digital Plus its major debut, showing how it takes advantage of advances in storage, recording, optical density, and bandwidth. Previously announced and briefly demoed at AES late last year, Dolby Digital Plus has had enough time behind the scenes to gather industry support. It's been named as a standard for the upcoming HD DVD format, though the forces behind the competing Blu-ray disc format have yet to make a similar announcement. 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 supports 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.More | Here13.1 sound :rolleyes: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted January 9, 2005 Report Share Posted January 9, 2005 Can't wait Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted January 9, 2005 Report Share Posted January 9, 2005 How long before we are completely surrounded by these noise generating machines?How long before we experience real life? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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