List of D-Box Titles

[ckenisell]

I have seen more and more people talking about this motion technology lately. And I have seen more and more Blu-Ray titles released with the motion codes included on disc.

This thread will focus on the technology and the BLU-RAY titles that are supported by D-Box motion codes. As you will see below, the titles will be divided into two catagories: Included On-disc & Available for Download from D-Box. We will NOT be focussing on DVD supported titles and we will not be focussing on the commercial theatre portion of D-Box's business. Also, we will not be discussing pricing in the thread either.

Resources:

To learn more about D-Box technology, visit D-Box's Home Theatre official web site.

What you need for D-Box to work in your home theatre:

1. Seating - For D-Box seating, you have three options:
   1. New Seating - You can purchase seating with the D-Box hardware already installed. This includes SRR-J-131, SRR-J-132, SRR-J-133, SRR-J-231, SRR-J-232 or SRR-J-233.
   2. Existing Seating - You can purchase frames that include the D-Box hardware that will retro-fit your existing seating. These models include SRP-130, SRP-230, SRP-330 and SRP-530.
   3. Custom Seating (SRR Series) - D-Box has worked with various seating manufactures to ensure that they build seating that can easily fit the D-Box hardware. Those manufactures include CDGI, Cineak, Cinematech, Continental Seating, Design NS, Fortress Seating, Jaymar, and United Leather.
      Note: I plan to expand on each of the models above in a future edit.
2. Motion Controller - This hardware is to motion as a surround sound receiver is to audio. Every D-Box system MUST include one of these. This controller includes a BD-ROM drive for loading D-Box codes from BDs that already include D-Box motion codes. It is also connected to your internet connection for downloading codes directly from D-Box for movies that do not include the codes on the BD. For Blu-Ray support, you have two options:
   1. Standalone Series - Series IV BD - This controller has a built-in BD-ROM drive.
   2. PC Based - From my understanding, a less expensive option is to dedicate a PC, with a built-in BD-ROM drive, as your controller. There is a Blu-ray.com member that is already using this method and look forward to his feedback on this option. I will edit this post with any further edit that is posted below.
      Note: I plan to expand on each of the options above in a future edit.
3. Finally, you need a Blu-Ray player. Any Blu-Ray player with a Digital Optical or Digital Coax output will work. However, there are issues to this:
   1. If you simply want to have motion and lossy audio, you may use any Blu-Ray player with Digital Optical or Digital Coax output. Note that your Blu-Ray player's audio settings will need to be set to bitstream and NOT PCM.
   2. If you want to have motion and lossless audio, you will need a Blu-Ray player that will output audio via HDMI and Digital Optical/Digital Coax at the same time. The Blu-Ray player needs to send the lossless audio track to your surround sound receiver via HDMI and the lossy Dolby Digital or DTS audio track will connect to the D-Box controller (standalone or PC based) via Digital Optical or Digital Coax.