How to decide which of these surround sound formats is best for your home theater.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There's much ado about the audio formats you choose, whether you're talking about listening to music or surround audio from your ...

The war isn't over, but DTS is under heavy siege.

I first heard of Dolby Digital Live (DDL) back when nVidia motherboards featured their Soundstorm. I thought this was a neat feature. The Yamaha speakers I had (5.1) had a receiver that would decode ...

Mid-90s moviegoers experienced a revolution in sound with Dolby's AC-3, or Dolby Digital. Engineers ingeniously used psychoacoustics, the science of human hearing, to compress audio. This allowed for ...

You may have heard of the audio formats Dolby Digital and Dolby Digital Plus, but what's the actual difference between them? Here's what you should know.