ac3 to prologic 2

[vrpatilisl]

hi
what are the advantages of converting dvd ac3 5.1 to DPL 1 or 2.
Thanxs

[hello_hello]

Probably none. Unless you have a surround sound system, some way of decoding it, and don't mind the fact that if you convert the audio to a format with a bitrate on the low side (128k MP3 for example) a lot of the surround information is probably going to be lost anyway.

Personally, I've never been a fan of surround sound. To me all that's achieved by having the sound surround you is to be constantly reminded the screen doesn't.

[tebasuna51]

what are the advantages of converting dvd ac3 5.1 to DPL 1 or 2.

Actually only save space preserving some surround info.

Before the actual 5.1/7.1 amplifiers/receivers there was amplifiers with only analog stereo input (without digital input SPDIF/HDMI) than can extract four channels (FL, FR, C, S) from DPL 1 or five (FL, FR, C, LS, RS) from DPL 2.