A night on the town with Robbie Savage, plus some heavy-metal mayhem, has convinced Steve May that there's more to Dolby Atmos than just explosions and gun-fights...
DOLBY ATMOS IS clearly too good to waste just on movies. The 3D audio format is extending its reach beyond film. Indeed, it has such momentum now that literally no one (not fake news, I've checked) is talking about DTS:X or Auro-3D. Dolby Atmos has become the de facto next-generation audio format. Creative types can't get enough of it.
Perhaps the biggest surprise is just how effective it is with live sports. The introduction of Atmos audio to BT Sport's 4K football coverage has effectively taken the codec to another level.
The telecomms giant is now capturing all its Premier League fixtures in Atmos. I went to a shindig to celebrate the first broadcast, Liverpool v Chelsea, to listen live, and was astounded at just how convincing it was. To recreate the ambience of a stadium, BT's sound engineers have treated crowd noise as a definable object and slapped it into the height channel.
This story is from the April 2017 edition of Home Cinema Choice.
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