Dolby® Digital Plus extends the capabilities of Dolby Digital, optimizing sound quality and efficiency for a richer, more compelling audio experience.
Delivers scalable sound, optimizing quality and efficiency for available bandwidth
Supports a wide range of existing and emerging home theater, broadcast, streamed content, and mobile applications
Provides up to 7.1 channels of surround sound for a more involving experience and dramatic special effects
Includes compatibility with millions of existing playback systems
Dolby Digital Plus is a versatile digital audio coding technology that extends the capabilities of Dolby Digital. Dolby Digital Plus delivers up to 7.1 channels of surround sound, with scalable sound delivery and a wide range of bit rates ensuring optimized sound quality and efficiency for the available bandwidth. These advances are just a few reasons why Dolby Digital Plus delivers a more enveloping audio experience for existing and emerging applications, including new digital broadcast TV formats, Internet-delivered audio, and high-definition video discs.
Dolby Digital Plus for Home Theater
Dolby Digital Plus takes the home theater surround sound experience to the next level by enabling Blu-ray Disc™ and other digital formats to deliver more channels, less compression, and higher data rates.
Dolby Digital Plus also supports secondary audio applications for interactive BonusView content on Blu-ray Disc.
Why Dolby
With more channels, less compression, and higher bit rates, Dolby Digital Plus helps equipment manufacturers and content producers differentiate their products by delivering a sound experience that some reviewers have described as being “virtually transparent” to the original source.
Delivers up to 7.1 channels of surround sound from Blu-ray Disc players
Enables up to 13.1 channels of dynamic sound to support new and emerging content delivery formats
Supports interactive Blu-ray Disc features: BonusView, an embedded picture-in-picture option that mixes multichannel secondary audio and video content, and BD-Live, which displays content streamed from the Internet
Allows single-cable connection and full application of the A/V receiver’s digital signal processor (DSP) postprocessing and bass management via HDMI™ 1.3 data transport
Includes complete metadata support and backward compatibility with existing home theaters