THX Truestudio multichannel PC audio test

Another one of those handy 5.1 surround test videos, this time from THX, in cahoots with Creative, and one I’ve not seen (or heard) previously, which is odd, because I’ve been looking, hard, for them all. It was uploaded to YouTube by user ‘sirbenni’ in March 2012, so we’ve got him to thank.

THX TruStudio Pro [...]

FascinatE us with your knowledge

For the last three years, 11 partners from all over Europe have been working on a €9.5 million project to launch what they call “the ultra high resolution interactive television service of the future. A full system comprising appropriate capturing and analysis technology, networking components and various terminal devices”. The project is FascinatE (which stands [...]

Which surround format for Eutelsat’s 4K trials?

Eutelsat began broadcasting 4K pictures over satellite early in January, to help production companies, channels, rights owners and kit manufacturers to get used to the idea. ATEME is helping out on the video compression side – 50fps progressive MPEG4, transmitted at 40Mb/s as four Quad HD streams.
So, they’ve settled on the number of pixels [...]

New stereo to 5.1 upmixer plugin

Software developer ADL (Audiotech Digital Limited) has this week the pre-release of a new product, Penteo 3 Pro, which they claim can take any stereo source and convert the signal into a “perfect” 5.1 mix, with:

Zero sonic artifacts
The most crisp, discrete center-channel available
100% ITU down-mix compatibility to the original stereo

According to ADL, other plugins lack [...]

More audio news from CES 2013

Headphone:X surround sound headphones is “a Home Theater in your Pocket (HTiP) solution” for mobile audio from DTS. This new technology uses the acoustic characteristics of the mixing studio or acoustic lab in which multi-channel audio is created to faithfully reproduces the home theatre surround sound experience in a wide variety of conventional headphones. Listeners [...]