Any use for a MTS stereo decoder in 2021?

[Jeffhs]

Originally Posted by Ed in Tx

"MTS" = Multichannel Television Sound

Obsolete along with analog NTSC broadcast TV unless you have an MTS stereo Encoder built into an RF modulator.

If MTS is now obsolete, how is stereo TV sound (not to mention subcarrier audio) reproduced? All digital flat-screen TVs, after all, have stereo sound systems, with the capability to connect the set's audio to an external sound system, usually by means of the headphone jack; simply run a cable from that jack to the system's auxiliary inputs. I have my own 32" Insignia flat screen TV hooked up to my 50-wpc Aiwa bookshelf stereo system this way; it works great, except I have to run the TV's volume level up fairly high to get enough volume to hear it well.

[Ed in Tx]

MTS was the Zenith and dbx transmission encoding method used from about 1984 until analog TV broadcasting ceased to exist. That's what they called it.

[dishdude]

Originally Posted by Jeffhs

If MTS is now obsolete, how is stereo TV sound (not to mention subcarrier audio) reproduced? All digital flat-screen TVs, after all, have stereo sound systems, with the capability to connect the set's audio to an external sound system, usually by means of the headphone jack; simply run a cable from that jack to the system's auxiliary inputs. I have my own 32" Insignia flat screen TV hooked up to my 50-wpc Aiwa bookshelf stereo system this way; it works great, except I have to run the TV's volume level up fairly high to get enough volume to hear it well.

Dolby Digital is used today for TV broadcasts.