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

[Eric Sharkey]

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