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speakers is fixed: a 7.1 system consisting of seven speakers and one subwoofer is used to play
7.1 content. Additionally, there is no height information in the content. With Dolby Atmos, in
contrast, you have amazing flexibility: the format provides even richer, more detailed sound by
rendering to overhead or height speakers and/or to more than seven speakers at the listener
level. As you add speakers, a Dolby Atmos enabled receiver will use them to create even more
fantastic, immersive audio.
With the revolution in audio that is Dolby Atmos, sound designers are freed from channel
restrictions. Sounds flow above and around you in step with the visuals, bringing a new sense of
height and reality to your listening experience. Dolby Atmos helps weave the audio story to
match what's happening on the screen. It puts you in the middle of the action—in ways you
have never experienced before.
Q: What is the difference between Dolby Atmos in the cinema and Dolby Atmos
in the home?
The cinema, with its giant screen and massive sound system, will always be the reference for
the ultimate entertainment experience. While home theaters have fewer speakers, the Dolby
Atmos home experience is extremely powerful. It combines traditional home theater speaker
layouts with many new possible speaker positions, including either ceiling-mounted speakers or
new Dolby Atmos enabled speakers that reproduce sounds coming from above you. The impact
of either in-ceiling or Dolby Atmos enabled speakers is breathtaking; your room fills with realistic,
multidimensional sound that places you directly in the center of the entertainment experience.
Q: How does Dolby Atmos cinema content transition to home theaters?
The Dolby Atmos experience in the cinema is so powerful and flexible because of its
revolutionary use of audio objects. To deliver the full object-based soundtrack to home theaters,
Dolby developed new home authoring tools and new encoding methods that take into account
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the spatial information of the sound objects to efficiently encode them in Dolby TrueHD and
Dolby Digital Plus™. This spatial coding is not a channel-based, matrix-encoding system like
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Dolby Pro Logic II or Dolby Pro Logic IIz. Instead, this fundamentally new coding technique
allows all the audio objects created for the cinema to be used in the home theater. Nothing is
lost.
Initially, home theaters will be able to play Dolby Atmos content on Blu-ray™ discs or through
streaming video services. No matter the source, when a Dolby Atmos stream is fed to a Dolby
Atmos compatible A/V receiver, the receiver will render the object-based audio to your home
theater's unique speaker configuration to precisely recreate the sound the filmmakers intended.
Because the object-based audio mix is delivered to home theaters, Dolby Atmos has the ability
to adapt to extremely diverse speaker setups, from systems with five speakers on the floor and
two speakers producing overhead sound to Dolby Atmos supersystems with 24 speakers on the
floor and 10 overhead speakers.
Q: Who is creating content, such as movies, for Dolby Atmos in the home?
Globally, more than 100 cinema blockbusters have been released featuring Dolby Atmos
soundtracks since 2012, and many more are on the way. Major Hollywood studios are partnering
with Dolby to create home video versions of current box office releases—and previously released
favorites—for release in 2014. In addition to global studio partnerships, Dolby is partnering with
game and music content creators to take advantage of Dolby Atmos technology for future home
theater use.
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