Today, surrounds sound is an integral part of home theater and has also made its appearance in the automobile. Multichannel audio is used in the digital television broadcast, gaming gadgets, and in the Internet (through streaming codecs). High definition formats (like SA – CD Multichannel and DVD – Audio) enable the surround sound producer to allocate content without clipping and sonic compromise. This makes their advent one of the most remarkable achievements in the history of the sound production.
Essential glossary
• aimed at – нацеленный на
• allocation – расположение, расстановка
• source – источник
• ambience – окружение, обстановка, среда
• suitable – подходящий, соответствующий
• application – приложение, (прикладная) система
• proliferation – распространение
• employment – использование
• commonplace – привычное явление, обычное дело
• gradually – постепенно
• to encode – кодировать, шифровать
• nascent – рождающийся, в стадии возникновения, появляющийся
• supplementary – дополнительный, добавочный
• medium (pl. media) – носитель
• a variety of – разнообразие
• integral part – (неотъемлемая) составляющая
• codec – кодек (компрессор-декомпрессор) данных
• high definition format – формат с высоким разрешением
• allocate – размещать, распределять
• content – содержание
• clipping – ограничение (сигнала), отсечение
5. Scan the article and use the words in brackets to complete the statements.
1) The document «Recommendation for Multichannel Stereophonic Sound System With and Without Accompanying Picture» was issued in 1994 as a result of the… conducted by the ITU.
2) The 1990s are characterized by development and proliferation of…
3) In the 1990s, at least three main film digital surround sound encoding formats arrived on the scene: …, Dolby >R Digital >TM (technically called «AC-3»), and DTS >TM.
4) The DVD, which appeared in the mid – 1990s, provided the mass public with a… bringing surround sound right into their homes.
5) Today, high definition formats enable the surround sound producer to allocate content without clipping and…
(digital audio systems, Sony SDDS>TM, sonic compromise, research, medium)
6. Read the article in detail to find the answers to the questions below.
1) What was the purpose of the ITU research done in the 1990s?
2) Why may the ITU recommendation not be ideal for many music applications?