XM HD Surround

XM HD Surround

On December 28 2005, XM Satellite Radio announced that it had teamed up with Neural Audio to introduce XM HD Surround, which will broadcast XM channels in 5.1 digital surround sound. XM will also broadcast a variety of special shows and live music performances in this format. According to the [http://www.xmradio.com/newsroom/screen/pr_2005_12_28.html press release] , Denon, Onkyo, Pioneer Electronics (USA) Inc., and Yamaha will introduce home audio systems capable of playing XM HD Surround in 2006.

The 5.1 surround sound is encoded in the stereo wave for transmission and is thus compatible with any mono/stereo/matrix-style receiver. If played on a 5.1 audio set equipped with Neural Surround decoder, the watermarks (i.e. spatial cues) in the waveforms are detected and the signal is recovered to its original 5.1 form. The technology is similar to parametric stereo, in which a mono signal is recovered to stereo. The bitrate for XMHD surround broadcasts is ~70 kbit/s using aacPlus from Coding Technologies.

XM HD Surround Channels (as of 3/06)

* XM76 Fine Tuning - Eclectic/Freeform Music
* XM113 XM Pops - Classical Popular Music
* XM200 XM Live - Concerts, Festivals, Interviews, Special Features

External links

* [http://www.xmradio.com XM Satellite Radio]
* [http://www.neuralsurround.com Neural Audio]
* [http://www.neuralaudio.com/downloads/NeuralSurroundBackgrounder.pdf Brief description of used surround technology]


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