12.1 & Audiences

[Peter Korsten]

Martin Naef schreef:

> Patented? I don't know - I'm doing research, not 
> commercialisation, so I don't worry about such things... But given the 
> free availability of a range of ambisonic tools, I would guess that if 
> there was a patent, it must have expired by now.

So, apart from that the usefulness of surround sound music is still 
under debate, in theory it should be possible to create a WXYZ music 
track and play it back on your 12.1 system?

It could be interesting, if we forget about such details like reverb...

- Peter