VOB demos covering 5.1, 5.1 EX and stereo — useful for comparing Dolby Digital variants
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City and City Redux are two versions of the same demo, both in Dolby Digital 5.1. City runs 34 seconds at 720×480 (NTSC), while City Redux is shorter at 23 seconds and shoots in 720×576 (PAL) — an unusual combination that makes them worth keeping both if you’re testing a player that handles mixed framerates. City is the more downloaded of the two, with around 19,000 downloads in our library against City Redux’s 10,000.
Egypt is one of the two Dolby Digital EX trailers in this section — the other being Aurora on page 1. Like Aurora, it carries a matrixed rear center channel that not all receivers will flag or decode separately. If your AV receiver has an EX or ES mode, these Dolby Digital EX trailers are the files to test whether that mode is being activated correctly.
Dolbee is the odd one out: despite the page being labeled as a 5.1 section, this file is encoded in Dolby Digital 2.0. That’s not an error — it’s how the original demo was released. On a 5.1 system it will play through the front left and right channels only, which actually makes it a decent stereo imaging test.
Enlighten is the smallest file here at 3.1MB and just 7 seconds. Like Argon on page 1, it’s a quick functional check rather than a demo — useful if you just want to confirm Dolby Digital decoding is working without downloading anything substantial.
Three different Dolby Digital configurations on the same page — standard 5.1, 5.1 EX and stereo 2.0. That’s what makes this set worth having as a group rather than downloading files individually from different sections.