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part of the reason why we're willing to pay out the freaking nose for movie tickets is that primo sound you get at the theater and indeed a huge part of marketing these days for cinema chains is pushing their audio technology that promises some sort of transcendental experience for your ears but years ago Dolby Laboratories you may recognize a little indication on games movies or even someone's receiver under their TV started trying to bring a theater like experience to the home they like other competing companies such as DTS provide compression technologies for audio streams so that they'll fit onto a disc much like how one might compress a video file to make it suitable for the net I'm looking at you h.264 Dolby's technology was born many years back with Dolby stereo if you are budding audio enthusiasts in 1975 you might remember seeing Dolby stereo being tossed around what was special about it was that it took your conventional stereo sound and created a four channel surround experience in the theater through some mathematical trickery with the sound encoding but it wasn't until 1982 that the home was first introduced to Dolby technology with Dolby Surround another analog technology that added a mono surround channel to the usual front left and right this was improved with Dolby Pro Logic which added a center channel and used in more advanced algorithms who not only extract the extra channels but to also improve the movement and discreteness between them Pro Logic still exists today in a new and improved form with the ability to mix stereo or surround 29.1 channels as technology progressed it became easier to record multi-channel sound natively and so Dolby Digital debuted in 1992 featuring six discrete channels of audio in the ubiquitous 5.1 setup five speakers one subwoofer since then we've seen incremental updates to the technologies with improvements to the number of channels as well as maximum bitrate and sample rate in the case of Dolby true HD a lossless audio codec so what does the future look like well in order to blow your mind the new dolby atmos now supports up to 128 audio objects that are independent of a channel assignment why is this better well imagine a helicopter flying over you instead of a conventional system vaguely telling your ears where the chopper is flying with Dolby Atmos sounds can be created independently and maps to a specific location so you'll be able to pick out exactly where it is at most also scales the specific speaker structure of the theater and does this in real-time so in theory you should hear a spatially accurate effect no matter where you sit put this all together and voila you can almost feel like you're there and if you don't want to pay 9 freaking dollars for a bucket of popcorn dolby has now expanded this technology into the home it does require a compatible AV receiver which supports the extra channels needed to make this possible the more speakers you have by the way the better but at most will work with at least 6 so you won't necessarily need to sell an entire kidney to make it happen audible.com is the leading provider of audiobooks with more than a hundred and fifty thousand downloadable titles across all types of literature including fiction nonfiction and periodicals audiobooks are a great way to listen to books when you're stuck in traffic driving down the subway on the bus doing chores in the gym doing errands shopping playing video games whatever for our audience members audible is offering a free audiobook to give you a chance to try out their service one that I'd recommend is Robert Jordans Wheel of Time it's a whole series they're awesome I read them all when I was a kid they're great if you like fantasy books to download this audiobook for free or another one of your choice head over to audible.com slash tech quickie if you liked the video like it if you disliked it dislike it leave a comment down below if you want us to check out something that you're interested in but don't quite know enough about or something that you wish you could help other people understand more easily ah check her channel super-fun I don't know I always tell you guys to do this but like seriously it's cool go over there if you want to see one of my really old videos on there that for some reason has way too many views check out our screen melting video also don't forget to subscribe I'll see you next time