7.1 Channel

7.1 surround sound integrates 8 discrete channels: Left, Center, Right, LFE, Left/Right Surround, and Left/Right Back channels. This format became prominent during the seventh generation, spearheaded by the PlayStation 3’s adoption of the HDMI standard and Blu-ray optical media, bypasssing the bandwidth limitations of legacy S/PDIF (TOSLINK) connections. It uses on uncompressed Linear PCM or high-bitrate bitstreams (Dolby TrueHD, DTS-HD Master Audio). This tag identifies titles that natively output an eight-channel soundscape for home theatre environments.