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Surround Modes
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by Lucasfilm Ltd. THX grew from their desire to make your experience
of home theater as close as possible to what the movie director in-
tended.
THX engineers developed patented technologies to accurately translate
the sound from the movie theater environment into the home, correct
the tonal and spatial errors that would otherwise occur.
About THX Cinema Processing
Lucasfilm defined a series of technical performance standards that
equipment must meet or exceed before it is allowed to wear the THX
certification logo. Several levels of performance standards are defined,
the most demanding standards are set for THX Ultra 2, which is your
guarantee that the Home Theater products you purchase will give you
superior performance for years to come.
A list of available DVD titles encoded with Dolby Digital Surround EX
technology can be found at www.thx.com or www.dolby.com.
Re-Equalization™
The tonal balance of film soundtracks can be excessively bright and
harsh when played back over home audio equipment because these
soundtracks were mixed to be played back in a large movie theater. Re-
Equalization restores the correct tonal balance for watching a movie in
the smaller home environment.
Timbre Matching™
The human ear changes our perception of sound depending on the
direction from which the sound is coming. In a commercial movie
theater, there is an array of surround speakers so the sound informa-
tion is coming from all around you. In a home theater there are usually
only two speakers located to either side of you. the Timbre Matching
feature filters the information going to the surround channels so that
they more closely match the sounds coming from the front speakers.
This ensures seamless panning between the front and rear surround
speakers.
Adaptive Decorrelation™
The large number of surround speakers in a commercial movie theater
provides an enveloping sound. Because there are fewer surround
speakers and you are usually sitting much closer to them in a home
theater, the surround sound image tends to collapse towards the
speaker closest to you. Adaptive decorrelation slightly changes the time
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