Dolby Digital Plus Incorporated into ATSC Standard

[The News Bot]

Dolby Laboratories, Inc. announced today that the Advanced Television Systems Committee, Inc. (ATSC), approved a revision to the A/52A Standard (entitled A/52B) that incorporates Dolby Digital Plus into an ATSC Standard. The ATSC membership vote was completed on June 14, and the Standard was published July 26. Additionally, in a subsequent membership vote completed on July 27, the ATSC approved a revision of the ATSC http://www.audioholics.com/news/pres...alPlusATSC.php

[RockySpieler]

I use VLC to watch US HD cable programmes, and it has A/52 as one of the audio options on certain files. Other files have 5.1 as the option, which is better? What are the differences?

Also as a side issue, the larger US LCD's now have ATSC tuner's. Does anyone know if these would decode freeview?.............apparately not see below:-


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