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Re:Microscopic footage of a needle moving across the grooves... by RegW on Tuesday June 16, 2015 @05:40PM (#9728872)
Brilliant - so that's how the my copy of Mike Oldfield "Boxed" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxed_%28Mike_Oldfield_album%2...) was supposed to work. As I didn't have the cash to buy a quad player I never got to hear it in "Glorious quadrophonic sound", I had to use an "old tin box".

It always baffled me that it also worked on an ordinary stereo - and I sometimes wondered if I had been had.

We now have the tech to encode many channels in one MP4 stream, but don't we don't bother and just stick to 2 for sound. What does that tell us about the future of 3D TV and 360 degree video? Perhaps more of us will stick to the old tin boxes.

http://www.discogs.com/Mike-Oldfield-Tubular-Bells/release/6...

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Re:Microscopic footage of a needle moving across the grooves... by dsr_ on Tuesday June 16, 2015 @06:30PM (#9729109)
Netflix sent me 6 channels for Daredevil, and the sound production was amazing. If you've only heard it via stereo, you missed out on all sorts of excitement.

Good multi-channel sound immerses you in an experience, and is worth a significantly smaller screen as a trade-off, if you have to make it.

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Re:Microscopic footage of a needle moving across the grooves... by cc438 on Tuesday June 16, 2015 @09:16PM (#9729626)
That's the perfect movie for demonstrating the potential of multi-channel audio. The only problem is that you're also relying on the viewer to have proper speaker placement, sound levels and speaker calibration. Autocalibration (YPAO) is simple and easy but hardly anyone knows to use it when installing their $300 home-theater-in-a-box.
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Re:Microscopic footage of a needle moving across the grooves... by ghaff on Tuesday June 16, 2015 @09:25PM (#9729642)
Master and Commander is another film with great surround sound. A number of years ago now, Dolby Labs used the sound from that movie as a showpiece in their SOMA theatre.
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Re:Microscopic footage of a needle moving across the grooves... by chinpokomon on Wednesday June 17, 2015 @05:17AM (#9730727)
Brave? It was the first Atmos movie, so I've just assumed that the downmix to 7.1 and 5.1 is equally as good.
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