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Terrestrial Television, Digital and Analogue
Audio via digital audio out on freeview box
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<blockquote data-quote="alfin" data-source="post: 146821" data-attributes="member: 184962"><p>I am currently feeding analogue stereo into an AV amp, so I am decoding</p><p>Dolby Pro Logic. My question was whether digital audio offered Dolby Digtial or DTS as DVD. Anyway, I got an answer from the beeb, as follows for your info:-</p><p></p><p><em>The BBC, in common with most other European digital broadcasters, has no plans at present to support any Digital Surround Sound system. The digital multi-channel sound systems are very hungry of the 'bandwidth' available so it was decided not to include one when the European specifications for digital terrestrial TV were being drawn up. However, the stereo sound system chosen for Digital broadcasts (called MPEG-2) is capable of supporting the phase-encoded surround sound systems (e.g. Dolby ProLogic) in the same way that NICAM does on analogue TV. </em></p><p><em>In the UK, only pre-recorded media such as DVD, or some commercial satellite channels have sufficient bandwidth to accommodate full multi-channel Digital Surround Sound.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>Most films made since the early 1990s are therefore broadcast in surround sound although at the present time, few ordinary programmes are.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em> </em></p><p><em></em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="alfin, post: 146821, member: 184962"] I am currently feeding analogue stereo into an AV amp, so I am decoding Dolby Pro Logic. My question was whether digital audio offered Dolby Digtial or DTS as DVD. Anyway, I got an answer from the beeb, as follows for your info:- [I]The BBC, in common with most other European digital broadcasters, has no plans at present to support any Digital Surround Sound system. The digital multi-channel sound systems are very hungry of the 'bandwidth' available so it was decided not to include one when the European specifications for digital terrestrial TV were being drawn up. However, the stereo sound system chosen for Digital broadcasts (called MPEG-2) is capable of supporting the phase-encoded surround sound systems (e.g. Dolby ProLogic) in the same way that NICAM does on analogue TV. [/I] [I]In the UK, only pre-recorded media such as DVD, or some commercial satellite channels have sufficient bandwidth to accommodate full multi-channel Digital Surround Sound. [/I] [I]Most films made since the early 1990s are therefore broadcast in surround sound although at the present time, few ordinary programmes are. [/I] [I] [/I] [/QUOTE]
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