What is Dolby Digital 5.1?
Five channels of digital audio incorporating a LFE channel. On a surround sound system the audio streams will be directed to the front left, front right, rear left and rear right speakers, the low frequency channel directed to the subwoofer with dialogue generally confined to the front centre speaker.
Dolby Digital 5.1 is a method of transmitting and storing 5.1-channel soundtracks via digital media such as DVD, digital cable, digital broadcast TV (DTV), and satellite transmissions. Unlike the Dolby Surround encode/Pro Logic decode process, which sacrifices channel separation to get surround onto any stereo soundtrack, Dolby Digital is a discrete system that keeps the multiple channels fully separated throughout the encoding and decoding processes. Dolby Digital 5.1 is the industry standard for encoding surround sound DVD movies. ForceWare Multimedia Standard supports Dolby Digital 5.1. • What does 5.1 mean? Multi-channel 5.1 encoding means having full-range Left, Center, Right, Left Surround, Right Surround channels, and low-frequency (“.1” – those bass rumbles and booms you feel as well as hear in a well-equipped cinema). Dolby Digital and DTS® are both capable of 5.1 encoding and decoding. • What is DTS? DTS is a competing encoding standard to Dolby Digital. DTS supports multi-ch
