Subject: Re: Audio strangeness on 12-JAN-91 From: boyajian@ruby.dec.com (Cisco's Buddy) Date: 1991-01-19, 01:57 Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks In article <1991Jan18.152917@ee.ubc.ca>, jmorriso@ee.ubc.ca (John Paul Morrison) writes... } Dolby Surround Sound needs no decoding by the TV station. The decoding } is done by your ears! I see. You mean, I don't really need to spend the money on a surround-sound decoder and an extra pair of speakers? My wallet thanks you. } Surround Sound plays with the mix of Left + Right and Left - Right. It still requires special equipment to decode and play. If you only have two speakers, you are *not* going to hear sounds behind you, unless that's where your speakers are located. } All the audio should have been handled by the TV production company, } maybe THEY screwed up. Obviously not, since the problems don't occur on every affiliate. Since it's *only* individual affiliates that are affected, it *has* to be on a local level. -- "My public will kill me for dying at a time like this." --- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, "The Mill", Maynard, MA) UUCP: ...!decwrl!ruby.enet.dec.com!boyajian ARPA: boyajian%ruby.DEC@DECWRL.DEC.COM