About Dolby Digital - JBL Simply Cinema ESC 360 Simple Setup Manual

• Wall-mount brackets.
• Floor stands available sepa-
rately for the satellites.
• Credit-card-type, full-
function remote control.

About Dolby Digital

The ESC 360 features Dolby
Digital (also unofficially known
as AC-3) multichannel signal
processing, a system devel-
oped by Dolby Laboratories.
Dolby Digital, unlike
"matrixed" systems (such as
Dolby Pro Logic) that derive
multichannel sound from a
two-channel source, is capable
of delivering information for
one subwoofer and five full-
range channels as discrete and
individual channels in digital
AC-3 data format from sources
About DTS
DIGITAL SURROUND
THE FINEST 5 .1 SURROUND
SOUND TECHNOLOGY ON THE
MARKET TODAY!
An amazing new technology
for surround-sound entertain-
ment, DTS Digital Surround is
an encode/decode system that
delivers six channels (5.1) of
master-quality, 20-bit audio.
• JBL "error-free" speaker
cables simplify connection
and eliminate possibility of
out-of-phase wiring.
such as a DVD player. The
result is clear and accurate
digital sound to each speaker,
along with availability of
stereo-surround effects (Dolby
Pro Logic features mono sur-
rounds).
Dolby Digital is capable of
delivering several different for-
mats of surround sound, the
most robust one being the 5.1-
channel mode, which provides
separate signals for five satel-
lite speakers as well as for a
subwoofer. The ESC 360
In the encoding process, the
DTS algorithm encrypts six
channels of 20-bit digital
audio imformation in the space
previously allotted for only
two channels of 16-bit linear
PCM. Then during playback,
the DTS decoder reconstructs
the original six channels of 20-
bit digital audio.
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• Center foot for horizontal
placement of the center
channel.
features a "5.1-Ch" indicator
that illuminates when a Dolby
Digital 5.1-channel encoded
signal is present. Dolby Digital
can also provide other AC-3
digital multichannel signals, as
well as 2-channel signals,
which can be decoded via
Dolby Pro Logic processing
into multichannel surround
sound.
Each of these six channels is
audibly superior to the 16-bit
linear PCM audio found on
conventional compact discs.