Their helmets also relay surround-sound audio alerts, giving directional warnings of incoming missiles.
Did we mention the Champagne cooler, the humidor, makeup boxes, DVD system and 21-speaker surround-sound system from Bose ?
The YSP-900 Digital Sound Projector joins Yamaha's high-end YSP-1100 in their digital sound projector line-up of simulated surround-sound speaker-bars.
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On a recent Saturday, Yates zipped in and out of the crowded tasting room while guitar riffs from surround-sound speakers bounced off the wood-planked ceilings.
Imagine having the same acoustics and surround-sound of Carnegie Hall, the Met, La Scala, Covent Garden all in your own living room.
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Compared with any other surround-sound setup, this is a cake walk.
And we use a basic surround-sound system in our living room.
Game players tend to be early adapters of any new technology, from specialized high-speed graphics chip sets to surround-sound computer speakers, that promises a more complete immersion in the virtual world.
Four consecutive Sundays have been dedicated to d.j.s playing the music of Kraftwerk over a surround-sound system set up in a geodesic dome in the courtyard of MOMA PS1, in Queens.
For a century, despite the additions of surround-sound audio systems and widescreen formats, the technology was more or less -- pardon the term -- static: a strip of celluloid, a series of sprockets and light.
Big-box retailers rely on sales of movie discs, not just because of the profit they generate, but because they lure customers into showrooms where they may be enticed to buy flat-panel TVs and surround-sound systems.
I'm not expert enough to know the reasons why, but architect Lord Foster's Wembley design has helped to provide an outdoor venue where the effect as Michael's vocals bounced around the stadium was rather like that of being in a modern surround-sound cinema.
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The exhibition features for the first time more than 300 objects from Bowie's life, from amazing stage outfits to rare photographs from the early years, videos of outstanding live performances screened in a thunderously loud surround-sound cinema, Bowie's own musical instruments, record cover designs and paintings.
The soundbar renders 5.1-surround sound through an innovative triple-core digital signal processing (DSP) array, which features 13 transducers, six 2-inch woofers, seven 1-inch tweeters and 11 amplifier channels.
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While the HD DVD version was limited to a Dolby Digital Plus track (allegedly because of space limitations) Blu-ray sports Dolby TrueHD as well as a few foreign language surround sound tracks -- although this is really the only difference, the reviewers appreciate it.
If you've been waiting for the least burdensome tablet you could find, Sony's 17.5 ounce, 6.9mm thick Xperia Tablet Z is now up for pre-order in the US. On top of being the lightest, slimmest 10-inch slate on the market, it's not exactly slumming spec-wise either: there's a 1.5GHz quad-core Snapdragon processor, Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean, 2GB RAM, an 8.1-megapixel Exmor R camera, NFC, LTE, S-Force virtual surround sound, 32GB storage and a 10.1-inch 1, 920 x 1, 200 display with Mobile BRAVIA Engine 2 tech.
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The BH9430PW is a high-quality surround sound speaker system designed to take the movie viewing experience to the next level.
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Nothing replicates the HD quality of TV or the earth-shattering surround sound.
Netflix has just announced an on-demand video-streaming service offering full high-definition picture quality (so-called 1080p, which has 1, 080 lines in its picture) with 5.1-channel surround sound.
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At the end of the day, your sound is all coming from one spot, so directionality isn't going to quite match a for-realsie surround sound setup, and the system we listened to was a little sharp in the high end, but it's certainly a unique and appealing offering from Mitsu to the everyman TV watcher.
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The DCP601 Home Entertainment System, a high-end digital cable ready entertainment receiverMotorola Ojo Personal Video Phone with a high-definition decoder, 6.1 channel surround sound, and a built-in progressive scan DVD player.
There is active 3D television with goggles and loaner blu-ray discs, surround sound, multiple wireless tablets that control everything from lights to curtains to room service menus - in seven languages, internet radio with thousands of choices, free international phone calls, the list goes on and on.
This is seriously a game changer for console users compared to what's been available for cross-platform Dolby surround sound decoders in the past.
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PhaseCue II - The new systems use ZVOX's proprietary PhaseCue II virtual surround processing to provide rich three-dimensional sound with movies or music -- without external speakers and speaker wires.
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Founded in 1965 and best known for high-quality audio and surround sound in environments from the cinema to the living room to mobile devices, Dolby creates innovations that enrich entertainment at the movies, at home, or on the go.
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As you'd expect, this 10.1-inch Android 4.1 tablet features the same design language as its smartphone counterpart, but it's what's inside that really sells this device: a Qualcomm 1.5GHz quad-core APQ8064 processor, 2GB RAM, 32GB storage, a 10.1-inch 1, 920 x 1, 200 screen (with Mobile Bravia Engine 2), an 8.1-megapixel Exmor R camera, NFC, LTE (MDM9215M radio), microSD expansion and Sony's very own "S-Force" virtual surround sound technology.
The new Oz game comes with Bose surround sound and an attached high-backed chair.
My brief lesson hints at the phenomenal amount of work involved in reaching a point where that accent convinces on a giant screen, in surround sound and over a two-hour running time.
Yeah, it doesn't emulate a full surround sound system altogether that well -- the clue's in the "virtual" -- but it looks pretty good and is definitely compact, which is sort of the point with these kinds of devices.
When combined with SBX Pro Studio Surround technology, it delivers awesome room-filling sound from a compact one-piece device powered by only the tiny USB current.
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