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Originally Posted by curtw
If they led you to believe that the system could "upconvert" stereo media, that was deceptive. You needed dedicated quadrophonic records or 8-track tapes to get the effect. And as for why it didn't stick around? It wasn't a failure to deliver, it was killed by competing formats (same old story). A lot of that stuff is being released on DVD as 5.1 audio now, so you can hear what what it was like.
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Yeah, the implication was that stereo media could be converted into 4-channel sound. I didn't believe it, even then, or at least was very skeptical. But, I didn't buy the system based on that expectation; it was because of other features (and price, I'm sure).
As I mentioned, I felt the same way when regular DVD players, starting maybe a decade ago, said that they could "upconvert" regular DVD media into high-resolution-looking video. Although I never bought one of those DVD players, I couldn't believe that that was true or even possible.
Everyone ought to believe the mantra, "if it looks too good to be true, it probably is."