Five full-range channels and one band-limited one, four rival formats that shared a single strip of film without colliding, and the matrix trick that squeezed four channels into two decades before any of it was digital.
Read 5.1 out loud and you have already said the most misunderstood thing in surround audio. Five, then a decimal point, then one — and the one is not a loudspeaker.
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