XPost: rec.audio.pro, comp.dsp   
   From: kludge@panix.com   
      
   dave a   wrote:   
   >   
   >THX and the whole surround sound movement is one obvious example of an   
   >innovation that was not a hand-me-down.  I'm sure the group can think of   
   >others.   
      
   I'm not sure I would consider THX an innovation in any way.   
      
   And the current surround-sound movement started out in the pro audio world   
   with cinema systems (of somewhat doubtful imaging), and only later wound up   
   in the consumer audio world with 5.1 discrete systems (of doubtful imaging).   
      
   Of course, there WAS that consumer push toward quadrophonic back in the   
   seventies but that didn't go anywhere (mostly since most of the systems   
   sold and most of the source material was pretty awful).   
   --scott   
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