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22.2 or Hamasaki 22.2 (named after Kimio Hamasaki, a senior research engineer at NHK Science & Technology Research Laboratories in Japan) is the surround sound component of Super Hi-Vision (a new television standard with 16 times the pixel resolution (7680×4320) of HDTV (1920x1080). It has been developed by NHK Science & Technical Research Laboratories. It uses 24 speakers (including two subwoofers) arranged in three layers.[1]

The channel numbers and labels are:[2] {| class="wikitable"
|-
! AES
Pair No./Ch No.
! Channel
No.
! Label
! Name
|-
| 1/1
| 1
| FL
| Front left
|-
| 1/2
| 2
| FR
| Front right
|-
| 2/1
| 3
| FC
| Front center
|-
| 2/2
| 4
| LFE1
| LFE-1
|-
| 3/1
| 5
| BL
| Back left
|-
| 3/2
| 6
| BR
| Back right
|-
| 4/1
| 7
| FLc
| Front left center
|-
| 4/2
| 8
| FRc
| Front right center
|-
| 5/1
| 9
| BC
| Back center
|-
| 5/2
| 10
| LFE2
| LFE-2
|-
| 6/1
| 11
| SiL
| Side left
|-
| 6/2
| 12
| SiR
| Side right
|-
| 7/1
| 13
| TpFL
| Top front left
|-
| 7/2
| 14
| TpFR
| Top front right
|-
| 8/1
| 15
| TpFC
| Top front center
|-
| 8/2
| 16
| TpC
| Top center
|-
| 9/1
| 17
| TpBL
| Top back left
|-
| 9/2
| 18
| TpBR
| Top back right
|-
| 10/1
| 19
| TpSiL
| Top side left
|-
| 10/2
| 20
| TpSiR
| Top side right
|-
| 11/1
| 21
| TpBC
| Top back center
|-
| 11/2
| 22
| BtFC
| Bottom front center
|-
| 12/1
| 23
| BtFL
| Bottom front left
|-
| 12/2
| 24
| BtFR
| Bottom front right
|}
Channel numbers up to 6 represent the same as those in a 5.1 channel system. There are then a further 5 listener-plane channels, 9 overhead channels, arranged in a square, and a row of 3 further channels at the bottom front, plus the additional LFE channel.