Dolby Digital

Posted on December 19, 2012 by KVMG-CMS   |  0 comments

Dolby DigitalThe implementation of surround sound that is encoded to a digital signal.  Dolby Digital is a compression method for encoding up to 5.1 channels of audio into a digital audio signal using a minimum of bandwidth.

Dolby Digital is widely available and is the de-facto standard on DVDs today.  Named for the company that invented the technology, Dolby Laboratories.