It would be great to have excellent surround sound with only 1-3 channels. Definitely buying if it doesn't come with a hefty price tag.

Does this mean endo will not need all his speakers then ? Hmmmmm.....

Just asking :)

Jo

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I think you would still need all your speakers. This can not produce sound where there is none. But it could take the 3 channels of information and send them in a special way to your 8 speaker setup. Also, this must be meant to replace just 2 channel stereo audio. There would be no way it could replace 5.1 or higher, because the info would be missing on the other channels.

I guess for the true way this will work, we are going to have to wait for the final stage to be complete.

Using a bit of imagination I could see this as being quite cool. I don't see why the metadata couldn't separate the sounds for each speaker from two sound channels into true 8 speaker (or more) surround sound. It would obviously have to be recorded on a system that can record the metadata.
Basically put all of the sound in two channels and then tell the player which sound from which channel to send to which speaker.

sounds great, i will buy it if the price won't be high

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you will still need at least a two channel system with a sub-woofer

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