7.1 surround sound is the common name for an eight-channel surround audio system commonly used in home theatre configurations. It adds two additional speakers to the more conventional six-channel (5.1) audio configuration. As with 5.1 surround sound, 7.1 surround sound positional audio uses the standard front, center, and LFE (subwoofer) speaker configuration. However, whereas a 5.1 surround sound system combines both surround and rear channel effects into two channels (commonly configured in home theatre set-ups as two rear surround speakers), a 7.1 surround system splits the surround and rear channel information into four distinct channels, in which sound effects are directed to left and right surround channels, plus two rear surround channels.

In a 7.1 surround sound home theatre set-up, the surround speakers are placed to the side of the listener's position and the rear speakers are placed behind the listener.^[1] In addition, with the advent of Dolby Pro Logic IIz and DTS Neo:X, 7.1 surround sound can also refer to 7.1 surround sound configurations with the addition of two front height channels positioned above the front channels or two front wide channels positioned between the front and surround channels.^[2]

Best Answer: Audio and video discs encoded with discrete 7.1-channel surround sound audio remain scarce. (I’m currently not aware any 7.1-channel music DVDs other than non-commercial demo discs.) Below is a list of high-definition DVD movies with above-average-to-demonstration quality, 7.1-channel soundtracks. It would seem that Dolby and DTS have the corner on the surround sound phones. There are others out there, though, and surround sound phones are significant to a number of types of users. One example is a gamer. He/she depends on the surround capability to excel at many games. Try this test.

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Home Entertainment[edit]

The Blu-ray Disc and the HD DVD home video formats provide up to eight channels of losslessDTS-HD Master Audio, Dolby TrueHD or uncompressed LPCM audio at 96/48 kHz 24/16-bit. The Sony PlayStation 3 video-game console can output up to 7.1 LPCM through HDMI for both Blu-ray movies and games.

Cinema[edit]

While some movies have been remixed to 7.1 audio tracks on Blu-ray Discs for home cinema,^[3] the first discrete theatrical 7.1 soundtrack was Toy Story 3 in 2010,^[4] followed by Step Up 3D. Disney announced that they will use 7.1 surround for their future 3D releases.^{[citation needed]} Recent titles include Megamind, Tangled, Tron: Legacy, Gnomeo and Juliet, Mars Needs Moms', Gulliver's Travels and The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.^[5] In 2011, additional movies were released with theatrical 7.1 audio, including Thor, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, Kung Fu Panda 2, Super 8, Green Lantern, Cars 2, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Captain America: The First Avenger. All these titles are exhibited in the Dolby Surround 7.1 theatrical format.^[6]7-1-surround-sound

Music[edit]

The history of electronic music includes the evolution of multi-channel playback in concert (arguably the real roots of 'surround sound' for cinema) and for a considerable time the 8-channel format was a de facto standard. This standardisation was fostered, in great measure, by the development of professional and semi-professional 8-track tape recorders—originally analog, but later manifesting in proprietary cassette formats by Alesis and Tascam. The speaker configuration, however, is much less traditional, and unlike cinematic reproduction systems, there is no hard-and-fast 'standard'. In fact, composers took (and to some extent still take) considerable interest in experimenting with speaker layouts. In these experiments, the goal is not limited to creating 'realistic' playback of believably natural sonic environments. Invocations for worship services. Rather, the goals are often simply to experience and understand the psychoacoustics effect created by variations on source and imaging.

Some of the first live concerts to appear were Chris Botti in Boston in 2009 and Satchurated in 2012.

References[edit]

1. ^'5.1 vs 7.1 Channel Home Theater Receivers - Which is Right For You?'. About.com. Retrieved 2012-06-04.
2. ^'Dolby Pro Logic IIz'. Dolby Laboratories. Archived from the original on 2011-09-26. Retrieved 2011-10-07.
3. ^'7.1 Blu-ray'. Blu-rayStats.com. Retrieved 2011-05-22.
4. ^Flinn, Ryan (2010-03-23). 'Pixar Gets Dolby to Invent `Rain of Sound' Technology to Match 3-D Movies'. Bloomberg. Retrieved 2011-05-22.
5. ^'Dolby Marks 40 Years in Cinema with Major Digital Cinema Milestones'. Dolby Laboratories. 2010-11-10. Retrieved 2011-05-22.
6. ^Giardina, Carolyn (2011-03-28). ''Pirates of the Caribbean,' 'Kung Fu Panda 2' to Use Dolby 7.1 Surround Sound'. The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on 30 March 2011. Retrieved 2011-03-29.