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What is the difference between AC-3 and 5.1 Digital Sound?

April 26, 2017AC-3 digital sound

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What is the difference between AC-3 and 5.1 Digital Sound?

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One of the technical specifications of DVD states that every disc must use at least one PCM or Dolby Digital soundtrack to ensure the medium’s high quality throughout all its publications. Dolby Digital is a sound format that allows to have up to six different channels of sound, making for a full surround experience of your movies. One of the most common used versions of Dolby Digital is its 5.1 channel implementation. Dolby Digital uses a compression scheme that is called AC-3 in order to store more information on a disc.