Dolby Atmos, Auro, and 3D audio thread

[DFTrouble]

LC's is the best BBQ in KC. Period. Followed closely by Bryants. I like Gates, too. I've only been to OK Joe's once and ordered the wrong thing. We will go there again in July.

I just hate that it's in Kansas and has "Oklahoma" in its name.

Back on track:
I alternate Christmas and Thanksgivings in KC. It won't be long before I can catch a flick at the Barrywood. Perhaps the Hobbit?

[drummerboy_2002]

Glad to see everyone is enjoying their first BBQ, I mean Atmos, experience. I can't wait to sink my teeth into my first Atmos flick.

[dobyblue]

Originally Posted by Aerodude73

Very nice!! Be sure to report back with your thoughts/review of the new Audio system (& maybe some Photos IF Possible... )

Didn't even think about taking a camera...drove about 1h30m to see Brave and the sound was simply awesome. The Dolby Atmos trailer, the movie, everything was incredible. You can appreciate the extra ceiling channels for sure.

I am looking forward to the next Atmos experience already, although until one opens a bit closer they will have to possibly involve carpooling next time with the price of gas.

[doctorD]

Originally Posted by dobyblue

Didn't even think about taking a camera...drove about 1h30m to see Brave and the sound was simply awesome. The Dolby Atmos trailer, the movie, everything was incredible. You can appreciate the extra ceiling channels for sure.

I am looking forward to the next Atmos experience already, although until one opens a bit closer they will have to possibly involve carpooling next time with the price of gas.

I wanted so bad to see and experience this but for some reason they decided to put the only one in Washington state all the way on the out-skirts in Vancouver Washington. I would have preferred Vancouver Canada to this location. Anyways, will have to wait until they have one closer.

[Aerodude73]

Originally Posted by dobyblue

Didn't even think about taking a camera...drove about 1h30m to see Brave and the sound was simply awesome. The Dolby Atmos trailer, the movie, everything was incredible. You can appreciate the extra ceiling channels for sure.

I am looking forward to the next Atmos experience already, although until one opens a bit closer they will have to possibly involve carpooling next time with the price of gas.

Wow, 90-min drive - Glad it was worth it at least. I hope Dolby puts out a somewhat long-form video clip of this new technology.

[Tony208]

I've only heard one movie with Dolby Atmos and that was DH5 lol
It was sickening and loud, like you could hear every individual piece of metal scrape against whatever it was going up against

I'm gonna try to see Iron Man 3 with Dolby Atmos at Empire 25 Times Square if it's available

[Dmen]

Has anyone checked G.I. Joe: Retaliation 3D in Atmos? Was waiting for Oblivion to check out the theater's impressive sound system, but the theater is 40 mins from my house and I was wondering if it's worth the trip.

[donaldsonjune]

hello all,

nothing in the philly area yet http://www.dolby.com/us/en/professio...lby-atmos.html

[slimdude]

Originally Posted by Tony208

I've only heard one movie with Dolby Atmos and that was DH5 lol
It was sickening and loud, like you could hear every individual piece of metal scrape against whatever it was going up against

I'm gonna try to see Iron Man 3 with Dolby Atmos at Empire 25 Times Square if it's available

If you didn't like Dolby Atmos the first time, then what make you think, you're going to like it the second time? It's going to be just as loud and disturbing as the last time.

[Aerodude73]

Originally Posted by Dmen

Has anyone checked G.I. Joe: Retaliation 3D in Atmos? Was waiting for Oblivion to check out the theater's impressive sound system, but the theater is 40 mins from my house and I was wondering if it's worth the trip.

From everything I've read on Dolby Atmos, I'd say it's prob gonna be worth the trip. For every movie I see in IMAX, it's about a 45-min drive, & it's really not that bad , & we all know how Great IMAX theaters are (Massive screen, 12,000 Digital Watts of Surround Sound)

[Tony208]

Originally Posted by slimdude

If you didn't like Dolby Atmos the first time, then what make you think, you're going to like it the second time? It's going to be just as loud and disturbing as the last time.

oh I don't know, maybe by sitting somewhere nice instead of the second row

[thedude22]

Originally Posted by Dmen

Has anyone checked G.I. Joe: Retaliation 3D in Atmos? Was waiting for Oblivion to check out the theater's impressive sound system, but the theater is 40 mins from my house and I was wondering if it's worth the trip.

G.I. Joe sounded awesome. Me and the wife went Saturday.

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[ZoetMB]

Haven't seen GI Joe (and won't), but I did see The Hobbit and Taken2 in Dolby Atmos and the sound was absolutely fabulous on both. In fact, I only saw Taken2 because it was in Dolby Atmos (the film otherwise sucked).

Having said that, there is no standard for the theatre configuration of Dolby Atmos aside from using the new processor. A theatre can do Atmos with 10 speakers or they can do it with 64 speakers. They can have the overhead speakers and rear woofers or not. They can have the additional front side speakers or not. In the object model, the system finds the closest speaker in the theatre to where the mixer placed it in the space and sends the signal there.

There is nothing about Dolby Atmos that makes it too loud. It's the sound mixer and director that makes a film too loud. In both the film industry and the music industry, everyone has forgotten that you create emotion by using dynamic range, not by blasting people out of the theatre for the entire movie.

Most of the current Dolby Atmos films are first mixed to 5.1 or 7.1 and then they're sweetened using the object model. But as the film mixers gain experience, some have said they're going to do the primary mix in Atmos and then downmix to 5.1 or 7.1. So Atmos mixes should get better and better over time.

The problem is that there aren't very many Atmos screens and theaters will use the generally larger Atmos screen for a non-Atmos film if they feel it will generate more revenue, relegating the Atmos film to a non-Atmos screen.

[slimdude]

Originally Posted by Tony208

oh I don't know, maybe by sitting somewhere nice instead of the second row

It's not going to matter where you sit because, the entire theater is surrounded with speakers.

[JAFO818]

Originally Posted by Dmen

Has anyone checked G.I. Joe: Retaliation 3D in Atmos? Was waiting for Oblivion to check out the theater's impressive sound system, but the theater is 40 mins from my house and I was wondering if it's worth the trip.

Yes and to be honest I didn't really notice the sound coming from above. It was my first movie in Atmos though.

[slimdude]

Originally Posted by JAFO818

Yes and to be honest I didn't really notice the sound coming from above.

The ceiling is so high in theaters, and the acoustics from the other speakers, that's possible.

[ZoetMB]

Originally Posted by slimdude

It's not going to matter where you sit because, the entire theater is surrounded with speakers.

Of course it matters where you sit. If you sit on the right, you're not going to hear the left-side speakers all that well. If you sit the front, you'll experience the surrounds differently than if you sit in the middle or the rear. Etc.

I'm always bemused when people come into an empty theatre and don't choose to sit in the middle (except, of course, for an old film in mono).

Every theatre has a prime seating position. It's usually center, about one-third of the way back.

[Spicoli]

This might mean I will eventually have to have speakers on MY CEILING

[pentatonic]

Originally Posted by ZoetMB

Of course it matters where you sit. If you sit on the right, you're not going to hear the left-side speakers all that well. If you sit the front, you'll experience the surrounds differently than if you sit in the middle or the rear. Etc.

I'm always bemused when people come into an empty theatre and don't choose to sit in the middle (except, of course, for an old film in mono).

Every theatre has a prime seating position. It's usually center, about one-third of the way back.

Yep, though I was told that the bigger, newer theaters were able to compensate (multiple side surrounds), there is a sweet spot.

In my late teens I used to go to this beautiful early 1900s theater which would only be open for special screenings. It was the place for all music concerts (Yessongs, tSRtS, etc.), and the projectionist was the uncle of a good buddy, he even told us which seat was the prime place. And indeed the sound was just so sweet there, perfectly calibrated. Dead center, about a third to half way from the front. And somehow being a balanced spot, the volume didn't seem as loud as elsewhere also. Worth it if you can chose.

Edit: For those of you who either live, or know Montreal, I'm obviously speaking of the gorgeous Imperial Theater

[Dubstar]

Originally Posted by slimdude

The ceiling is so high in theaters, and the acoustics from the other speakers, that's possible.

I agree I have yet to hear the 'voice of god' speakers myself - wish AMC had booked 'Mama' on the Dolby Atmos screen at Tysons, because the mixers purposefully put quite a number sound effects moments coming from directly over the audience.

in regards to 'Iron Man Three' the Atmos mix when compared to the other films I've heard 'Oz' 'A Good Day to Die Hard' 'Oblivion' it was the most lacklustre of the bunch.