Dolby Atmos coming soon for home use

[Blu-Dog]

Originally Posted by BozQ

Unless you have a home theater room larger than Dolby Theater, you will not need more than Dolby's recommendation of 7.1.4

If you already have a 7.1 system and you have a qualifying receiver that can be upgraded to Atmos, then all you really need is get at least two height speakers, either in-ceiling or one of the other add on modules and you're more than ready to enjoy Dolby Atmos.

I'm looking forward to the next conference where Dolby can shed more information about this.

Yeah, tell the owner of a Krell, or Macintosh, or Rotel that he won't get the "ultimate listening experience" without rushing out to buy a compatible Onkyo to run his rig. See how far that goes.


This will be a modular "plug and play" add on. If all this talk about being totally compatible with current Blu players is true, it shouldn't be difficult at all. You will get a "black box" with a pass-through for whatever you're running (5.1, 7.1) and it will power and distribute the Atmos signals, probably to a dedicated "disco ball" speaker array. This is the only thing that the consumer market will tolerate.


Sure, there will always be the "Professor Elbow Patches" types recommending that a new $1,200 receiver (minimum for 7.1 distribution now, probably woefully inadequate for 30 or more channels) and a new set of speakers running $200 - $1,000 each for sound, is the absolute minimum for this marvelous new sound arrangement. They said so over in the other website...


The black box solution will be announced soon, with authorized brands, as was THX. It's the same type of thing, and we all know it.