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Author Topic: Dolby Headphone Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 07-28-2003 10:24 PM                        Dolby has a new stereo encoding method that claims to give you the illusion of 5 channel surround while wearing a pair of crusty ol' headphones. I downloaded the Dolby headphone trailer and listened to it with headphones. It sounds unimpressive, and certainly NOTHING like true multichannel sound. Just normal stereo. You can file this one under "Pseudo Gimmick" along with Q-Sound.  |  IP: Logged Michael Schaffer "Where is the Boardwalk Hotel?" Posts: 4143 From: Boston, MA Registered: Apr 2002 posted 07-29-2003 01:45 AM                        Where can that trailer be downloaded?  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 07-29-2003 01:54 AM                        http://www.cinenow.com/fr/vobtrailer.php3/id,33/ You will need to demux it and listen to the AC3 file, or play the VOB file on your software DVD player.  |  IP: Logged Michael Schaffer "Where is the Boardwalk Hotel?" Posts: 4143 From: Boston, MA Registered: Apr 2002 posted 07-29-2003 02:27 AM                        It didn`t play in PowerDVD, but Windows Media Player worked. The effect is indeed not very strong. The trailer is a bit lame too. But I have to grant them that the "woush" sounds seem to be located somehow behind the head.  |  IP: Logged Mike Olpin Chop Chop! Posts: 1852 From: Dallas, TX Registered: Jan 2002 posted 07-29-2003 05:11 AM                     Dolby Headphone is nothing new. It's been around for a few years. Basicly its a DSP mode that decodes all 5.1 channels, than time delays each channel to create the illusion that the sound is coming from whichever speaker the director intended. This illusion is refered to as binaural. A good place to experience binaural sound is Disneyland's "Great Moments with Mister Lincoln". Binaural isn't perfect. Because the shape of our heads varies, the sound "placement" is not always the same for each person. Appearently, Dolby has decided that because of this, the center chanel information will pass through the dsp unafected, while the rest of the chanels (effects and such) will be placed inside the binaural sound field. Dolby Headphone DSP is avialable on some recievers, portable dvd players and dvd computer software. You can also experience Dolby Headphone as a separate audio track on select DVDs. -Pearl Harbor -T2 (new metal case edition) Learn more about binaural here .  |  IP: Logged David Stambaugh Film God Posts: 4021 From: Eugene, Oregon Registered: Jan 2002 posted 07-29-2003 04:48 PM                        Sony Dolby Digital Headphones  |  IP: Logged

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