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22.2 or Hamasaki 22.2 (named after Kimio Hamasaki, a Senior Research Engineer at NHK Science & Technical Research Laboratories in Japan[1]) is the surround sound component of Super Hi-Vision (a new television standard with 16 times the pixel resolution of HDTV), and has been developed by NHK Science & Technical Research Laboratories. It uses 24 speakers (including two sub-woofers) arranged in three layers. [2]
[edit] Speaker positions
The speakers are arranged in three layers: [3]
[edit] Upper layer: Nine speakers above ear level
- Top-Front-Center
- Top-Front-Left
- Top-Side-Left
- Top-Back-Left
- Top-Center
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- Top-Back-Center
- Top-Front-Right
- Top-Side-Right
- Top-Back-Right
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[edit] Middle layer: Ten speakers at ear level
- Front-Center
- Front-Left-of-Center
- Front-Left
- Side-Left
- Back-Left
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- Back-Center
- Front-Right-of-Center
- Front-Right
- Side-Right
- Back-Right
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[edit] Lower layer: Five speakers below ear level
- Left sub-woofer
- Bottom-Front-Left
- Bottom-Front-Center
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- Right sub-woofer
- Bottom-Front-Right
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