Tag archive: Surround

XM Satellite Radio and audio development company Neural Audio today announced that select XM channels would begin broadcasting in 5.1 surround sound later this year. XM plans to demo XM HD Surround at the Consumer Electronics Show in January. XM HD Surround, said the satellite radio company, will become available on new home audio systems from the likes of Denon, Onkyo, Pioneer Electronics (USA) Inc., and Yamaha in March 2006. The… Read More

Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS, inventors of mp3, together with Thomson, co-inventors of mp3 and exclusive licensing representative for their mp3 patents and software, and AgereSystems, have joined to launch mp3 SURROUND into the consumer and commercial markets. This technology will enable 5.1 channels surround-quality sound for a broad spectrum of applications includingweb-based music distribution, broadcasting systems,… Read More

Expected this summer, the MP3 Surround format is based on Agere Systems' technology. “What we do is take the original surround-sound signal,” explains Peter Kroon, Agere's chief multimedia architect, “and we down-mix that from 5.1 channels to stereo.” Rather than capturing all the additional channel information, however, the encoding uses psychoacoustic techniques to capture only spatial and speed… Read More