Creative Labs Sound Blaster Extigy review
Reviews The back panel houses a USB jack, MIDI in, MIDI out, S/PDIF in, S/PDIF out and three jacks for outputting Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound (front, rear, and centre/subwoofer). Since the Extigy can't send Dolby Digital 5.1 to a home-theatre system...
[March 10, 2002, 23:00]
VideoLogic Sonic Xplosion DVD review
Reviews Nearly all consumer surround-sound standards are supported here, including both Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Headphone and DTS, but not the new 7-channel standard, Dolby Digital EX 6.1. Alternatively, if you don’t want any of the on-board Dolby Digital...
[November 26, 2002, 7:53]
Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy 2 NX review
Reviews Because Creative designed the Audigy 2 NX to decode DVDs mastered in standard Dolby Digital 5.1 and the new Dolby Digital EX 6.1 audio formats, our first task was to pop in a few movies and crank up the volume.
[February 18, 2004, 16:00]
DVD Workshop 2 review
Reviews The program can also encode stereo Dolby Digital and multi-channel Pro Logic soundtracks, and although it can't encode its own 5.1-channel Dolby Digital files, it can import previously created 5.1 audio content and pass it through as part of a...
[April 2, 2004, 9:10]
Comdex: Flat, flat, the world is flat...
News Top of the range is the $199 AudioStorm MT7 D/X 5.1 Dolby Digital Multimedia Theatre Speaker System with Dolby Digital decoder (6 channels) 12 Watt Subwoofer, 3 Watt centre speaker, four 3 Watt flat panel speakers and an amplifier.
[November 18, 1998, 5:32]
NVidia brings Xbox technology to the PC
News The MCP comprises a Direct 8.0-compatible audio processing unit -- also used in Microsoft's forthcoming Xbox -- whose standout feature is a Dolby Digital Interactive Content Encoder that encodes multi-channel audio into Dolby Digital 5.1 surround...
[June 5, 2001, 8:34]
Future of digital music up for grabs
News Home theatre aficionados may want music files that play in 5.1 Dolby surround sound, requiring a Dolby codec, continued Jennings. Microsoft Corp.and Dolby Laboratories have put forward their own technologies to replace MP3.
[July 21, 1999, 9:08]
Sony unveils new year DVD lineup
News It also boasts built-in Dolby Digital decoding. As well as a combination DVD/CD player it features an AM/FM receiver and Dolby Digital and dts decoding. This week's Consumer Electronics show in Las Vegas has seen Sony announce a whole raft of new...
[January 7, 2000, 6:25]
CombiNumerals Pro
Downloads It contains all of the DVD logos, plus all of the Dolby surround sound logos, DTS and Sony logos, THX and Widescreen format logos, and a complete collection of sound mode icons (e.g.surround, stereo, mono, etc.
[November 13, 2001, 6:00]
Nuggets: Pump up your DVD experience
News The DigiTheatre DTS digital home cinema audio system is designed to bring top notch audio for Dolby digital 5.1 and DTS (Digital Theatre System) DVD films. Determined to turn your lowly DVD player into a full home cinema system, VideoLogic keeps...
[March 1, 2000, 14:10]
Nuggets: No ordinary DVD player...
News For sound you're talking built-in 5.1 channel dts and Dolby Digital audio decoders providing six channels of output for surround sound reproduction. It ain't cheap and it doesn't make tea. Although the price of DVD players is plummeting there'll...
[April 16, 1999, 14:45]
Format wars heat up with Panasonic DVD launch
News It includes built-in Dolby Digital 5.1 channel decoder circuitry and dts digital output. The struggle to establish a de-facto standard for recordable DVD players hotted up this week, with Panasonic announcing it would launch the world's second...
[January 14, 2000, 14:40]
Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy 2 review
Reviews On top of this, the Audigy 2 claims an impressive signal to noise ratio of 106dB, as well as providing support for regular 2, 2.1 and 5.1 surround speaker setups and the new Dolby Digital EX 6.1 arrangement -- it adds an extra rear centre channel...
[November 13, 2002, 9:53]
MP3: You can't stop the music ...
News MPEG-2 supports backward and forward compatibility for multichannel audio, so it supports both old audio technology, such as MPEG-1, and emerging digital-audio formats such as Dolby 5.1. With all the controversy currently surrounding the digital...
[April 10, 2000, 8:26]
Developers size up state of Mac OS X
News He noted that standards such as Dolby 5.1 and peripherals such as Creative Labs' Sound Blaster cards would be difficult -- if not impossible -- to implement without more information from Apple. It's not that he doubts the final version of Mac OS X...
[May 17, 2000, 11:19]
Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Platinum Pro review
Reviews Although the Dolby Digital EX 6.1 decoding of last-generation Sound Blasters uses up-mixing to synthesise the sixth channel (rear-centre speakers), DTS-ES sources have a discrete sixth channel for better sound localization.
[March 18, 2004, 6:25]
Nuggets: Panasonic DVD has lots-o-features...
News Picture quality is enhanced with a 10-bit video DAC and sound is looked after by DTS (Digital Theatre System) 5.1 channel digital audio output, as well as Dolby Digital output. Every day ZDNet UK News will bring you two Nuggets -- one just before...
[March 9, 1999, 14:04]
