[mythtv-users] Can mythtv (or mplayer/xine through mythtv) upmix 5.1 sound in 6.1 or 7.1?

[Stephen P. Villano]

On 10/1/13 9:40 PM, Eric Sharkey wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 9:17 PM, Jean-Yves Avenard <jyavenard at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 2 October 2013 10:32, Eric Sharkey <eric at lisaneric.org> wrote:
>>
>>>> DTS Neo:X can take stereo, 5.1, 6.1, or 7.1 source material and output up to
>>>> 11.1 channels including front height and width channels.
>>> So says the DTS marketing department...
>> for this to happen, the channels must have been matrixed in the
>> original material...
> Right, but this just cannot be done perfectly.  Information is lost in
> the matrix.
>
> The question is whether a new mid-low end 5.1/7.2/whatever native
> receiver will sound better than this older Denon unit with software
> mixing.  Quite possibly.
>
> Sometimes you just need to accept obsolescence.
>
> A university colleague once told me:
>
>   I paid $7,000 for that machine over there.  I'm now using it to prop
> open my door because it's too slow for me to use even to check my
> email.
>
> Eric
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Hehe, that's how I got my first Sparc station. Old Solaris pizza box unit.
It's in my storage unit right now due to space constraints, but it still
tosses DICOM images around quite quickly!