Dolby Atmos coming soon for home use

[BozQ]

Originally Posted by FilmFreakosaurus

Yes, Chicago is the one directed by Rob Marshall.

The best use of SDDS 8 channel (five up front with dual surrounds and LFE) was the remix of Das Boot: Director's Cut. Many others were really too subtle for you to notice.

In Star Trek: Edge of Darkness the sound engineers placed the dialog stems into objects and positioned them in all five screen speakers corresponding to where the characters were in the scene. In Gravity any off-screen dialog was pushed into various surround quadrants.

Sounded better than anything SDDS ever offered.

Now, they could take those 8 channel SDDS mixes and re-purpose them for Atmos with additional height and surround tweaking. Das Boot would be phenomenal in Atmos.

Abouy Chicago, I can somewhat believe it's already Atmos encoded. The Diamond Edition's video went through Dolby Vision processing. And the soundtrack was in Dolby TrueHD 7.1 96KHz, but in 16-bit if I recall correctly. So it won't come as a surprise if Dolby teamed up with the studios to pimp up this Blu-ray.

About Das Boot, I don't suppose we'll see a Blu-ray in the SDDS 7.1 configuration.

And I believe you meant Star Trek Into Darkness. I honestly didn't notice the use of five surrounds when I watched it because I was so blown away by the overhead surrounds in the opening scenes that I kept focusing the sounds over my head. But Gravity yes. I definitely noticed the dialogue used as object stems and panned across the five screen speakers. And all around the hall in fact.

Have you guys noticed that Dolby Atmos is best noticed in quieter movies and scenes?

Originally Posted by FilmFreakosaurus

When you set up an Atmos pre-amp or receiver you have to tell it which overheads you're using: ceiling or "Atmos" upward firing speakers. If you choose the "Atmos" selection then additional psychoacoustic processing is enabled to help create the sensation of overhead sounds (since the discrete object information is not actually above you). When ceiling speakers are used, that should be left off.

There have been more than a few mentions in first hand reviews that "Atmos-enabled" speakers can be quite effective as long as you position and calibrate them correctly, and have the proper flat, hard surfaced, unobstructed ceiling.

I'll hear it to believe it. :-)
Or wait for a review.

Because having a clear, unobstructed ceiling is a challenge for me. My small little house doesn't have that luxury.