Dolby Digital or DTS? Dolby Atmos or DTS:X? How are they different and how are they similar?

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The Dolby name appears on a lot of audio products. Dolby Cinema and Dolby Digital are both under that umbrella, but there's a big difference between them.

Thanks to the ability of digital audio to be perfectly copied, transmitted, and carried in small packages, we may be surrounded by more music and human-made audio programming than at any other time in ...

If you have a fancy home theater system with a soundbar and surround sound speakers, then how you connect it to your TV is an important consideration. There are legacy options you may be more familiar ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Technology journalist specializing in audio, computing and Apple Macs. Lately, there’s been a small flurry of Digital Audio ...

Now that pretty much every major streaming music service — except Spotify — offers lossless audio options at CD-quality or better, you may be wondering how you can hear that extra level of sound ...

The Mach 2 in Milano, Italy, is a 5.1 audio surround facility that features three audio studios and an editing suite equipped with Avid Pro Tools HD digital audio production systems. Photo courtesy ...

" With regard to excellence, it is not enough to know, but we must try to have and use it." - Aristotle The more things change, the more they stay the same. Nearly fifty years ago (1958 actually) the ...

ALEXANDRIA, VA.—As television engineers age, those brought up in the era of analog signals and the subsequent transition to digital are retiring and talking hard-earned knowledge with them. Younger ...