Personal Surround Sound with Dolby Headphone
The beauty of headphones is that they allow you to crank the volume day or night without disturbing others. But when it comes to content designed to be heard in surround sound, like movies and video games, listening with headphones can mean missing out on a big part of the experience.
Dolby Headphone solves this problem by bringing you realistic surround sound through any pair of headphones.
An Acoustic Landscape
When you listen to entertainment through your stereo or home theater system's speakers, your ears receive sound directly from each speaker and from multiple reflections of the sound on the room's surfaces and furnishings.
Dolby Headphone recreates this audio experience, producing the sonic signature of a speaker system properly placed in a carefully defined acoustic environment. The result is a spacious audio landscape with you at the center.
This natural soundfield eliminates the overloaded sensation that comes from wearing headphones for too long. With Dolby Headphone, you can listen in privacy for hours because the sound no longer seems to be pouring directly into your ears from speakers fixed on opposite sides of your head.
Up to 7.1-Channel Sound
Built into A/V receivers, PCs, and game headsets, Dolby Headphone works with all types of content. This includes native 5.1-channel content like movies, TV shows, and video games.
Dolby Headphone also expands stereo content into surround sound when combined with Dolby Pro Logic II. Even 7.1-channel surround sound is possible from content preprocessed with Dolby Pro Logic IIz.