Dolby Atmos coming soon for home use

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Originally Posted by BozQ

I should also add one other thing. Until it's further clarified, I think Dolby Atmos content on Blu-ray will be lossy and not lossless, and encoded with Dolby Digital Plus.

Is it just me or does this seem like a letdown? I mean if they can't do it uncompressed then why bother? Seems like a lot of work just to add some channels of overhead compressed audio.