The sound quality at Dolby’s San Francisco office is much better than the New York office. I’ll be honest I actually found the cinema screening room a little underwhelming. We watched all of these presentations twice, once in the office’s main screening room that played the Atmos cinema mixes, and then again later in a smaller home theater demo room where we heard the home versions played back through (upcoming) consumer speakers. Dolby and its studio partners are not ready to announce specific Blu-ray titles yet. We were instructed to be very clear that Paramount provided the ‘Star Trek’ clip for testing and demo purposes only, and this should not be taken as confirmation that ‘Star Trek into Darkness’ will be released on Blu-ray with an Atmos soundtrack. The movie clip was the opening scene from ‘ Star Trek into Darkness‘.
The last trailer was a Red Bull Media ad involving a Formula 1 race car. The third was called ‘Leaf’, featuring animation by Pixar with sound design by the great Gary Rydstrom. For reference, here are the web-friendly versions reduced to underwhelming YouTube quality audio: At least two of the trailers (called ‘Amaze’ and ‘Unfold’) you may have seen if you’ve been to an Atmos theater.
The Dolby reps showed us four Atmos trailers and one movie clip. Will the home version really be as good as what we hear in cinemas, or will it be watered down for mass market CE consumption? To answer that question, Dolby invited myself and some other home theater journalists to its New York headquarters to listen for ourselves.įirst off, I can confirm that home Atmos works and it sounds pretty great. Dolby’s groundbreaking Atmos surround sound format is coming to Blu-ray and home theater later this year.
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