Robert_Gaither
Screenwriter
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Actually I see 8 speakers minimum for the future (3 for LCR fronts, pair of sides, and 3 LCR rears so the sounds will pan more precisely and will end the debate of putting rears side or behind), and at least 4 subs being standard in 10 years (so all the boomy bass heads now days being able to get the bass dosage that they'll want). This is assuming that the TV will still be on one side of the room all viewers being herded somewhat toward the middle of the room.
If TV becomes 3D/holographic then I think that there will be nine speakers with one in each corner, speaker setup between each of them, and a center speaker from the center of the room will allow all to sit around the presented format and have the sounds pan appropriate for all viewers.
The sad fact with the advancement of this technology that the quality of the presentation will be lacking as to fit all these speakers that most people will make the compromise of having inferior sounding, SAF accepting, and small speakers, and source mix catered more to the immediate pop arts than the longer lasting true arts that will most likely be mixed improperly and played mostly on low resolution systems (this is evidenced by seeing the purchase of Bose, popularity of pop boy/girl/rap acts, mp3s being more popular than SACD/DVD-A, and improper mixing of current music tracks with clipped signals/poor dynamics by the major labels). This will also be shown by the watering down of more movies by doing remakes of a remake and more people maybe buying that movie more as a demo of surround sound for the few bit tracks on them than the quality of the movie itself (U571, Episode 1, and Episode 2 when someone decides to remake them in the future).
Hopefully there will be at least a handful of gems to keep us entertained in the future to make it worth buying and installing the future gear of tomorrow. Even the overwhelming stench of real physical garbage sometimes pale to that which millions of dollars were spent on movies that were trying to avoid becoming an intellectual one.
If TV becomes 3D/holographic then I think that there will be nine speakers with one in each corner, speaker setup between each of them, and a center speaker from the center of the room will allow all to sit around the presented format and have the sounds pan appropriate for all viewers.
The sad fact with the advancement of this technology that the quality of the presentation will be lacking as to fit all these speakers that most people will make the compromise of having inferior sounding, SAF accepting, and small speakers, and source mix catered more to the immediate pop arts than the longer lasting true arts that will most likely be mixed improperly and played mostly on low resolution systems (this is evidenced by seeing the purchase of Bose, popularity of pop boy/girl/rap acts, mp3s being more popular than SACD/DVD-A, and improper mixing of current music tracks with clipped signals/poor dynamics by the major labels). This will also be shown by the watering down of more movies by doing remakes of a remake and more people maybe buying that movie more as a demo of surround sound for the few bit tracks on them than the quality of the movie itself (U571, Episode 1, and Episode 2 when someone decides to remake them in the future).
Hopefully there will be at least a handful of gems to keep us entertained in the future to make it worth buying and installing the future gear of tomorrow. Even the overwhelming stench of real physical garbage sometimes pale to that which millions of dollars were spent on movies that were trying to avoid becoming an intellectual one.
