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Originally Posted by Great68
Your TV would have to have 5 discrete line-level RCA outputs for each speaker if it actually decoded "Dolby" surround.
The "Matrix DSP/Surround" is just an effect it does on the stereo speakers to make the soundstage sound wider. It's not true 5 speaker surround at all.
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There are different types of Dolby Surround.
Dolby Surround or Dolby Pro-Logic are 2-channel stereo modes which simulate a surround speaker (rear) and a center channel (in the case of Pro-Logic only). One of my dad's TVs had this codec on-board. Dolby Pro-Logic isn't bad which is why the codec has evolved into its current incarnation - Pro-Logic IIz for use with legacy stereo recordings.
Dolby Digital, and Dolby TrueHD are discrete 5-channel surround modes.