Co-sound supervisor Hank Neuberger pictured inside the Effanel L8 remote truck: "In previous years, we had provided a single remote [truck] to handle the generation of both stereo and 5.1-channel music mixes. This year we realized that, because of the accelerating interest from DTV-equipped home viewers, we didn’t want to generate a plain-vanilla stereo mix at all. Instead, we decided to create a [matrix-encoded 5:2:5 Dolby Pro Logic II] Lt-Rt mix for standard-definition viewers, and a totally independent, discrete 5.1-channel mix for HD viewers.".

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