A popular surround sound format goes one better. Normally, when a new technology is introduced or enhanced, we've got mixed feelings. Of course, we re all for the idea of new technology bringing better performance. But we always feel some trepidation, too. When the new technology starts appearing on our shelves, well, those good people often start to feel bad.
Technology always marches on, though, and more things seem to change than stay the same.
So we think it's terribly cool that DTS has introduced some new enhancements to their digital surround technology that play back just fine on current DTS-decoding equipment. While you won't get the benefits of the new encoding, you won't get anything less than what you're currently used to either. You don't have to worry about which disc to buy, or what setting to use on your processor. Just slip the disc in your player, hit play on the remote, and dig in to that bowl of popcorn. If you're familiar with DTS, you know that the typical DTS-equipped movie theater reproduces 5.1 channels of sound.