I downloaded a trial subscription of CBS All Access in order to watch the Super Bowl and I hear that the signal is only in stereo. So I look it up on my AVR and it says the format is Dolby Digital Plus and the output is 2.1.
So I engaged the “Dolby Surround” mode on my Yamaha AVR and now it’s in 5.1 and sounds like football games usually sound on my system.
My question is: what is this format and what is the AVRs “decoder” doing with it? Is it doing the same thing it would do with any stereo TV signal? Or is this something different because it’s “Dolby Digital Plus”? Is this an encoded surround signal they send over a two-channel stream?
So I engaged the “Dolby Surround” mode on my Yamaha AVR and now it’s in 5.1 and sounds like football games usually sound on my system.
My question is: what is this format and what is the AVRs “decoder” doing with it? Is it doing the same thing it would do with any stereo TV signal? Or is this something different because it’s “Dolby Digital Plus”? Is this an encoded surround signal they send over a two-channel stream?
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