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you can create your own DTS DATs or CDs but not mini disc or digital compact cassette. As with Dolby
Digital, sound will normally come from all seven speakers in your system, but your receiver can produce
sound in one (mono) to seven channels (see “Audio Modes under Operation”).
DVD Audio (also referred to as MLP) - Meridian Lossless Packing (MLP) is a lossless coding system for
high-quality linear PCM audio. For DVD-Audio MLP performs lossless compression of up to 6 channels of
up to 24-bit material sampled at rates between 44.1kHz and 192kHz. Lossless coding does not alter the
final signal, it ‘packs’ the audio data into a smaller rate and space. Currently, DVD Audio can only be
delivered to your receiver via the analog 5.1 input. Sound will normally come from all seven speakers in
your system, but your receiver can produce sound in one (mono) to seven channels (see “Audio Modes
under Operation”).
Home THX Cinema Processing - THX is an exclusive set of standards and technologies established by
the world-renowned film production company, Lucasfilm Ltd. THX grew from George Lucas’ personal
desire to make your experience of the film soundtrack, in both movie and in your home theater, as faithful
as possible to whatever the director intended.
Movie soundtracks are mixed in special movie theaters called dubbing stages and are designed to be
played back in movie theaters using similar equipment and conditions. The soundtrack created for movie
theaters is then directly put onto reproducible media, DVD, VHS tape Laser disc, etc... With no changes to
account for playback in a smaller home theater environment.
THX engineers developed patented technologies to accurately translate the sound from the movie theater
environment into the home, correcting for the tonal and spatial errors that occur. While Home THX
Cinema mode is active, THX processing is added after the Dolby Pro Logic, Dolby Digital or DTS decoder.
Sound will normally come from all seven speakers in your system, but your receiver can produce sound in
one (mono) to seven channels (see “Audio Modes under Operation”).
Re-Equalization™ - restores the correct tonal balance for watching a movie soundtrack in a small home
theater.
Timbre Matching™ - filters the information going to the surround speakers so that they more closely
match the tonal characteristics of the sound coming from the front speakers. This ensures seamless
panning from the front to surround speakers.
Adaptive Decorrelation™ - slightly changes one surround channel’s time and phase relationship with
respect to the other surround channel. This expands the listening position and creates a more spatial
sense using only two speakers.
THX Surround EX – Dolby Digital Surround EX is a joint development of Dolby Laboratories and the THX
division of Lucasfilm Ltd.
In a movie theater, film soundtracks that have been encoded with Dolby Digital Surround EX technology
are able to reproduce an extra channel which has been added during the mixing of the program. This
channel, called Surround Back, places sounds behind the listener in addition to the currently available
front left, front center, front right, surround right, surround left and subwoofer channels. This additional
channel provides the opportunity for more detailed imaging behind the listener and brings more depth,
spacious ambiance and sound localization than ever before.
When released to the home consumer market, movies that were created using the Dolby Digital Surround
EX technology, may have a note to that effect on the packaging. A list of movies created using this
technology can be found on the Dolby web site at http://www.dolby.com.
Only receiver and controller products bearing the THX Surround EX logo, when in the THX Surround EX
mode, faithfully reproduce this new technology in the home.
This product may also engage the “THX Surround EX” mode during the playback of 5.1 channel material
that is
not
Dolby Digital Surround EX encoded. In such case the information delivered to the Surround
Back channel will be program dependent and may or may not be very pleasing depending on the
particular soundtrack and the tastes of the individual listener.
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