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- From: Craig_Everhart@transarc.com
- Newsgroups: rec.audio
- Subject: Re: Dolby Pro Logic in Music and Vidio Tapes anyone ?????
- Message-ID: <YehUCEL0BwwtJkmUcs@transarc.com>
- Date: 15 Sep 92 15:38:56 GMT
- References: <1992Sep8.164350.19617@ultb.isc.rit.edu>
- <1992Sep14.180029.177@bmerh85.bnr.ca>
- Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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- In-Reply-To: <1992Sep14.180029.177@bmerh85.bnr.ca>
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- Excerpts from netnews.rec.audio: 14-Sep-92 Re: Dolby Pro Logic in Musi..
- Shiv Naimpally@bnr.ca (1399)
-
- > Any Dolby Pro Logic encoded material will be marked as such. Stereo Review
- > recently looked at this relatively new phenomenon of encoding music CDs
- > using Pro Logic and they listed 30-40 cds. I do know of 2 off the top of my
- > head: Isao Tomita's "Holst's The Planets" and Wendy Carlos's new "Switched
- > on Bach" release. Both are electronic realizations of Classical pieces.
- > I think some of Tomita's other CDs have also been released with Pro Logic
- > encoding.
-
- > Unless you are playing Pro Logic encoded source, don't use the Pro Logic
- > decoder.
-
- Not quite. Close, though.
-
- ``Dolby Pro-Logic'' is a decoding technology, not an encoding/decoding
- technology. ``Dolby Surround'' is the companion encoding technology.
- It can be decoded, to varying tastes and abilities, with several
- decoders, including Dolby Pro-Logic. Source material will be marked
- with the encoding technology used, not any of the collection of possible
- decoders.
-
- There is material in non-surround-encoded stereo sources that will be
- used as ``surround'' information by various decoders. Perhaps what the
- poster (Shiv Naimpally) meant is that it can be a mistake to use Dolby
- Pro-Logic decoding on material that isn't surround-encoded.
- Unfortunately, there's nothing in the encoded material itself that would
- indicate the encoding, as the surround information is electrically a lot
- like the ordinary, expected signal differences between left and right
- channels. Thus, anybody coming up with an ``indicator light'' to
- indicate surround-encoded source material would be making a guess. This
- contrasts with, say, the ``FM stereo'' multiplex sense, which is a
- positive identification.
-
- It's tough to find stereo audio on videotapes that isn't
- surround-encoded, so it's not surprising that you can leave your
- surround decoding on all the time for A/V sources. Surround encoding on
- audio-only material is, as the poster suggested, less typical.
-
- Craig
-