Gservo
15th May 2002, 10:42 PM
by Shane Buettner
THX recently shook up the consumer electronics world with their announcement at CEDIA Expo 99 that they would be exclusively licensing and offering a new consumer digital surround sound technology, THX Surround EX. What's more, the first DVD title encoded in Dolby Digital Surround EX, Austin Powers: the Spy Who Shagged Me, is barely more than a month away with more titles to follow. Upgrades for existing surround processors will be offered just before this title's release on November 16th, and one would presume more hardware support, and perhaps even titles, will arrive for the Christmas rush.
Now, the thing that may be confusing to some is that THX Surround EX is the processing technology used to decode Dolby Digital Surround EX soundtracks. In other words, the software will be encoded in Dolby Digital Surround EX, which will be decoded using THX Surround EX processing. Dolby Digital Surround EX is Dolby's latest theatrical digital surround sound format known as which made its debut earlier this year with Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace. I thought it would be appropriate to give people a heads-up on what Dolby Digital Surround EX is, and how THX is bringing this technology to the home.
More here (http://www.dvdfile.com/news/special_report/production_a_z/production_a_to_z/thxex.htm)
THX recently shook up the consumer electronics world with their announcement at CEDIA Expo 99 that they would be exclusively licensing and offering a new consumer digital surround sound technology, THX Surround EX. What's more, the first DVD title encoded in Dolby Digital Surround EX, Austin Powers: the Spy Who Shagged Me, is barely more than a month away with more titles to follow. Upgrades for existing surround processors will be offered just before this title's release on November 16th, and one would presume more hardware support, and perhaps even titles, will arrive for the Christmas rush.
Now, the thing that may be confusing to some is that THX Surround EX is the processing technology used to decode Dolby Digital Surround EX soundtracks. In other words, the software will be encoded in Dolby Digital Surround EX, which will be decoded using THX Surround EX processing. Dolby Digital Surround EX is Dolby's latest theatrical digital surround sound format known as which made its debut earlier this year with Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace. I thought it would be appropriate to give people a heads-up on what Dolby Digital Surround EX is, and how THX is bringing this technology to the home.
More here (http://www.dvdfile.com/news/special_report/production_a_z/production_a_to_z/thxex.htm)