I just wanna clarify the confusion surrounding (har har) Dolby Digital EX (6.1) vs regular DD5.1ĭolby Digital EX (6.1) is simply taking Dolby Digital 5.1 and getting a matrixed rear center channel out of the rear left and right channels. If nothing else the little diagrams will have you know speaker placement. Maybe a bit behind? I'm a noob but that's what I got. Surrounds aren't so much behind you as I think pointed at your ears from the side. 7.1 is like twoL/R fronts, a center, two L/R surrounds, and another 2 L/R in the rear. These things are done with the existing sound information, probably separating the sound coming out of the rear center which is exactly what 6.1 adds. From my understanding 7.1 is actually a little funny, their is extra processing done (maybe in both encoding and decoding?) to create an extra 7th channel. this means it probably supports 6.1 and 5.1 as well.

The pros might not get why we get confused but the names jump around a bit. These receiver and these DDL cards work fine. while the receivers and stuff say things like just Dolby Digital (5.1) and Dolby Digital EX (6.1). Dolby Digital Live is labelled onto these soundcards.

As a HT noob myself, I think I was making it harder than it has to be. When you look-up DDL their seems to be a lot of mentions of PC's and video games.

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