Feel like you just won't be filling your quota of explosions and other loud noises with the upcoming Blu-ray release of The Expendables 2? Lionsgate is promising that the title will have a little more oomph than typical Blu-ray audio options. When it's released on November 20, the Blu-ray will come packing a DTS Neo:X 11.1-channel encoded soundtrack.
We're starting to see more Blu-rays pop up with 7.1 audio, but apparently Sylvester Stallone and his action-hero cronies need to take things up a notch -- a few, actually. That said, this track is technically a DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1 track with encoding for the extra height and width channels.
"The Expendables 2 is still a DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1 mix, but it was specially optimized for Neo:X processing," DTS said in a statement (via Home Media Magazine). "While the Blu-ray will still deliver a stellar DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1 experience on receivers not equipped with DTS Neo:X processing, those who have a Neo:X enabled receiver will be immersed in an even more impressive multidimensional audio environment, complete with height, capable of supporting up to an 11.1 channel configuration."
We're starting to see more Blu-rays pop up with 7.1 audio, but apparently Sylvester Stallone and his action-hero cronies need to take things up a notch -- a few, actually. That said, this track is technically a DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1 track with encoding for the extra height and width channels.
"The Expendables 2 is still a DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1 mix, but it was specially optimized for Neo:X processing," DTS said in a statement (via Home Media Magazine). "While the Blu-ray will still deliver a stellar DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1 experience on receivers not equipped with DTS Neo:X processing, those who have a Neo:X enabled receiver will be immersed in an even more impressive multidimensional audio environment, complete with height, capable of supporting up to an 11.1 channel configuration."
