[Coco] 5.1

[Roger Taylor]

At 10:57 PM 10/22/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>6-channel?  Dennis, were these CDs supposed to play back on the 5 or 6
>channel DVD-like home theater systems?  Can CDs really be made to do that?
>
>My PC has  SoundBlaster Live setup that supposedly plays 5.1 sound, thru my
>5-speaker system, but I can't say I've noticed much special when I rent a DVD.


The PowerDVD XP software has some awesome sound modes that even turn the 
cheap 2-speaker setups into something to brag about.  The headphone mode 
with stuff like theatre sound effects is quite amazing.  There's so much 
stuff you can do with more than 2 channels of sound.