Dolby Laboratories home page
Offers links to company information, news and products, as well as technical information about Dolby Digital, DVD, and Dolby Surround and multimedia.
How to Buy Surround Sound
Sound & Vision Online provides the simple steps that will take you from just thinking about a great home theatre to actually having one.
Surround Sound Past, Present, and Future (PDF)
A history of multichannel audio from mag stripe to Dolby Digital. The first commercially successful multichannel sound formats were developed in the early 1950s for the cinema. At the time, stereophonic sound, a concept new to the public, was heavily promoted along with new wide-screen formats by a film industry feeling threatened by the rapid growth of television.
Surround Sound Speaker Placement
This SoundStage article discusses issues and common problems associated with surround sound speaker positioning.
