Why 7.1 is Overkill
Read this piece courtesy of Digg and thought, "Geez, I only have the two tiny speakers on my TV blasting away when I watch a movie. I'm so far behind I don't have my TV audio running through an amp and stereo speakers with a subwoofer much less 5.1 or 7.1." But then I realized, "Oh--I just don't care about TV enough."
So now I feel better.
posted by Michael G @ 10:07 AM
2 Comments:
At 11:18 AM, February 27, 2006,
luzio said…
About 7 years ago, I got a 5.1 system for my birthday. I remember hooking it up in my dorm room and thinking it was broke because the subwoofer wouldn't work. I was watching Gladiator (DTS sound)... and then it happened. The subwoofer wasn't working because the sound engineer for Gladiator wasn't using it yet. Then the horses came charging through the woods and instead of hearing their thundrous roar through the speakers, I felt it through the subwoofer. I was hooked.
Then, there was the time I watched What Lies Beneath with my 5.1 system. Every couple of minutes during a scary scene, I would look over to the sides of my couch because the rear speakers made it sound like creapy things were going on around and behind me.
It's called sound immersion... the only way to watch a movie, even on a 27" screen.
At 2:59 PM, February 27, 2006,
Michael G said…
I realize I'm a hopeless Luddite on this and I may come around some day. I have a small (20-something inch) TV and the cheapest cable package available (about $12/month). We don't watch that many movies--mainly because we're busy doing other things. In a world of limited resources, it's still "just TV" to me.
If I want to watch a really cool movie, maybe I'll just come over to your place.
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