Sound and Bar

[starmike]

Originally Posted by Ruined

Here is the answer:
1. The LFE is discarded. It is not filtered or mixed in at all, just tossed. Therefore your 2.1 soundbar goes poof basically becoming 2.0 and the sub can only HPF out the pittance of LFE in the main channels. In a pro 2.0 downmix, the engineer can place some of the LFE channel in the main channels to restore the bass, which the sub can then HPF out

2. The center channel and corresponding surround channel are each reduced by 3 decibals and mixed into the left and right channels. There is obviously no professional supervision as to whether this reduction in volume will impact the dialogue intelligibility in each scene when flattened to 2 channels.

So now you know and that is the reason we still see 2.0 mixes instead of just the multi-channel

This is absolutely ridiculous. Where do you come up with this garbage?