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thanks for watching tech wiki click the subscribe button and enable notifications with the bell icon so you won't miss any future videos so 360-degree virtual reality movies aren't quite mainstream yet I mean who wants to strap on the headset every time there's another disappointing Justice League movie but at least 360-degree surround sound has long been a mainstay of not just movie theaters but home theaters as well or a typical setup would be a subwoofer too for bass and 5 or 7 speakers surrounding the viewer to help the sound well surround the viewer now traditionally the way this is worth is that depending on the surround audio encoding scheme used by the publisher a device called the receiver would decode and playback discrete audio tracks for each speaker that would correspond to the action on the screen assuming a high-quality mix so the idea is that if you're looking at the scene featuring a conversation the voices will probably be coming mostly out of the center channel while the satellite speakers behind you focus on let's say ambient background noise this one track for one speaker paradigm has been powering surround sound systems for a long time and it's worked pretty well but we've increasingly seen a different method of surround sound delivery both in theaters and on blu-ray that's actually based around encoding saliz's objects of channels the principle behind Dolby Atmos and DTS X but hold on a minute sounds as objects okay so it means that instead of each audio track corresponding to only one speaker the tracks are encoded with data that indicates some location in space instead of a specific channel so let's say you're watching a scene where a plane is flying overhead toward you instead of for example of the tracks match to the front speakers getting quieter and the tracks for the back speakers getting louder as the plane passes by the plane's engines will instead be encoded as a spot in space above you that moves around in real-time now this may not sound like too much of a difference but the idea here is that Atmos and DTS X scale very well traditional surround setups had no way of knowing much more than distance from your couch about the physical placement of the speakers in your room so results can be very inconsistent from setup to setup because Atmos and DTS X allow sounds to be coded with location data like above the listener halfway between the screen of the chair and against the right-hand wall rather than just right front speaker a decoder compatible with these formats will then take this positional data and the specific speaker configuration into account to produce sound that's more accurately reflective of where it's supposed to be in space whether it has five speakers propped up on two by fours around your computer to represent this data or fifty professional-grade loudspeakers in a large cinema and even includes support for sounds above you some of the traditional surround doesn't offer at most supports up to 118 objects and DTS X supports an unlimited number of objects and both technologies can work with your conventional 5.1 and 7.1 speaker setups with Atmos boasting support for up to 34 speakers for home theater now that max sounds excessive and it probably is but more speakers will enhance the sense of space and realism you'll get now as for those of you who are at the type to install speakers everywhere you can find an empty spot on your wall or ceiling there are a number of upward firing speakers that reflect off of your ceiling to simulate a real speaker above you and you can even upgrade your existing power speakers just by plopping one designed to fire upward on top of them we checked out the sound bar that uses this technique recently over online as tech tips and the effect was fairly convincing of course like with any new standard not everything is at moose or DTS X capable you'll need a compatible receiver though the good news is that most receivers support both and some Atmos or DTS X and coda media fortunately the technology is becoming more and more common on blu-rays streaming services and even game consoles so maybe at some point we'll feature at most support right here on tech cookie and envelop you with a velvety tones of my voice coming at you from a hundred and eighteen different angles No no takers at all all right well anyway speaking of velvet do you want a velvety experience when you're building your next website well check out Squarespace with 24/7 support via live chat and email it's only $12 a month and you get a free domain if you buy a Squarespace for the year it has a responsive design and your website will scale to look great on any device you also get commerce features in that every website comes with a free online store there's also cover pages a feature that allows you to set up a beautiful one-page online presence in minutes and new as a Squarespace analytics app it's easy to use but you also get the full range of traffic analytics you 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