Thursday, April 01, 2004
5.1 MP3 : If you have a (free) registration at the New York Times site, you can read about 5.1 Surround sound version of the MP3 format. Excerpt: "The Fraunhofer Institute, the German research center that led the effort to create the MP3 digital music format, recently announced a new version called MP3 Surround that adds the extra audio channels needed for 5.1 sound without appreciably increasing file size. According to Jürgen Herre of the institute, MP3 Surround files can also play in conventional stereo mode on two-channel devices." Good ol' Fraunhofer. There's also mention of Dolby Headphone, the kooky algorithm that simulates 5.1 in regular headphones.
