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'In Dolby Surround where available'

...and other variations.... (August 2015)

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WH
Whataday Founding member
Just to make noggin (and I) feel ancient:

http://www.tvforum.co.uk/tvhome/dolby-surround-sound-34351/
NG
noggin Founding member
Whataday posted:
Just to make noggin (and I) feel ancient:

http://www.tvforum.co.uk/tvhome/dolby-surround-sound-34351/

Oh. Dear. God.
NG
noggin Founding member
Markymark posted:
noggin posted:
TVMan posted:
Granada mixed their Saturday night shows Stars in their eyes and
You've been framed in 5.1 in about 2000


But presumably they only went out, at best, in Dolby Surround (which is matrixed into a 2.0 stereo signal) via NICAM on analogue and 2.0 MP2 on DVB-T/S, unless they were trialling Dolby 5.1 on their DVB-T/DVB-S outlets ?


I don't recall any 5.1 broadcasts in the UK as far back as 2000 ? From the mid 1990s, Granada were broadcasting a few of their 'top drawer' programmes using the '2.0 Surround' matrix system which would flow
perfectly through the NICAM transmission system as used on analogue.


Yes - but the comment was about mixing in 5.1 not broadcasting in it Wink

By 2000 5.1 production was beginning to happen in the broadcast arena, even if the result was matrixed down to Dolby Surround to be carried in a matrix surround format over 2.0 channels, for later Dolby Pro Logic decoding to 5.0 (or Dolby Surround decoding to 3.0 - as this used stereo front and a single rear channel)
BH
Bvsh Hovse
The first 5.1 I remember seeing (or should that be hearing?) in the UK was on Sky Movies in late 2003. This press release from Dolby confirms it started around that time, along with widescreen programming. You did need to have a Sky+ box to receive it though.
NG
noggin Founding member
Bvsh Hovse posted:
The first 5.1 I remember seeing (or should that be hearing?) in the UK was on Sky Movies in late 2003. This press release from Dolby confirms it started around that time, along with widescreen programming. You did need to have a Sky+ box to receive it though.


Yes. For some reason the Sky Digiboxes with optical digital audio outputs (Sony?) didn't allow for Dolby Digital output of Sky's 5.1 SD content, only Sky+ boxes did.

SVT also started broadcasting 5.1 Dolby Digital on their SD DVB-T broadcasts in summer 2003.

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