What is Dolby® Headphone?
Slipping on a favorite pair of stereo headphones is almost as nice as being transported into a late night movie, DVD, or game, except for one glaring annoyance: multi-channel soundtracks are squashed into two tracks. Wouldn’t it be great to hear those tracks as they were intended, even over headphones? Now you can, thanks to Dolby® Headphone technology. With Dolby Headphone technology built into a receiver, any pair of headphones can deliver a dynamic, multi-channel, surround-sound experience. Dolby® Headphone is a processing technology that takes multi-channel sound tracks or recordings and translates them into virtual surround sound for output through the stereo headphone jack. Any pair of stereo headphones will deliver surround sound when a Dolby® Headphone chip is present in the equipment. This technology can be built into any audio equipment, from receivers to DVD players, gaming counsels to personal digital electronics, boom boxes to mini-stereos. Standard surround sound utilizes