May 2013
Intermediate to advanced
1808 pages
87h 11m
English
by Joe Hull
45.1 The Origin of Surround Sound
45.2 Surround from Optical Soundtracks
45.4 Variations on the 5.1 Theme
45.5 Surround Sound Comes Home
45.7 More Home Theater Channels from Existing Content
45.8 The Question of Playback Level
45.9 What's Next for Surround Sound? 1600
The first commercially successful multichannel sound formats were developed in the early 1950s for the cinema. At the time, stereophonic sound, as it was called, was heavily promoted along with new wide-screen formats by a film industry feeling threatened by the rapid growth of television. Unlike the two-channel format later adopted for home use because ...
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