As I’m updating the site tonight, I noticed that at this time, there is absolutely no upcoming release on DTS:X. Nothing with or without a date pending release.
When we compare with the approximatively 20 titles still coming for Atmos, and the steady debit of news, it’s really starting to look grim for DTS:X on Blu-ray and Ultra HD Blu-ray.
Did the format arrive too late to the game? I think so. Considering the strong initial marketing with more features than Atmos, but the real implementation being more similar or actually in some cases more limited, it seems like a natural conclusion for the audio format war this time around.
With Dolby dominating on streaming too with Atmos and Dolby Digital+, we have to be afraid for the future of DTS.
What do you think? Do you expect things to change? I’m curious to hear your thoughts!
As a guy who has always prefer DTS over Dolby, I’ll admit that DTS kinda lost to Dolby this time around. While I expect Universal Pictures to continue their support for DTS:X occasionally, other studios though may or may not use DTS:X anymore & just go exclusively Atmos. Here’s one thing DTS can do to save DTS:X a little bit from being a complete failure. If possible, DTS can tweak DTS:X by increasing its maximum output from 7.1.4 to maybe 14.1.6 or 16.1.4 that might help a little bit.
DTS-HD Master Audio is still quite popular so not everything’s doomed for DTS after all, the very last thing DTS would do to DTS:X is declare it a failure and come out with a successor in just a few years which in my opinion is pulling a Sega right there.
Thanks for the feedback sir. Aligned with pulling a Sega!!! 🙂 One could say Dreamcast was a pretty good comeback though! 🙂
This makes me sad. I absolutely prefer DTS:X over Atmos any day. It is tragic that DTS:X is losing. It is a better format all the way around.
Curious, is DTX:X more expensive to put on a Blu-ray? Is it more difficult? Does anyone know why this superior soundtrack isn’t being used more than it is?
Hi sir, thanks for the feedback.
I have a question for you, what makes you feel that DTS:X is superior to Atmos?
DTS has better, more distinct bass. Dolby is just boomy. DTS is discernable. Aside from the bitrate factor.
Hi Hank,
I was thinking (or hearing 🙂 the opposite, Dolby is more controlled while DTS is boomy. Both have some good 24bits editions on the market but not many home theater owners took that in their equation that you need the loudspeakers having HiRes as well to get the full advantage. Most Receivers have that built in but another problem is that not many company’s build HiRes speakers, Polk signature series has it (i have them also and i prefer them anyday over Klipsch). One of the clearest soundtracks i ever heard is Evil Dead 2013 wich is DTS HiRes. (Not the kind of movie you show to your guests unless it’s Halloween offcourse) I hope with bitrate we are talking about the same thing. If you mean that with DTS it’s higher than Dolby then yes most of the blockbusters have higher bitrate because of the audio quality that comes with it hence is was talking about HiRes or 24bit/48Khz. There are not so much 24bit/48Khz Truehd from Dolby on the market but Benjamin Button is a great demo. I’m assuming that every Atmos and DTS:X release are HiRes. I can’t find it on the net…
Kind regards, Tim
hi there guys,
i wanna come in like a wrecking ball.
dolby had 4 years more experience with object based sound before even dts started their attempts to create a competitive system in wich they failed. before all of this they had a unique system that was called dts: neo X, like auro but without VOG, and they betted their money on the wrong horse by creating this unique system. who is that crazy to drill holes for height speakers in their homes? they had to drop that idea because auro wasn’t doing well. so all the time they developed a huge space of time in between auro and atmos at the top and themselves. then the software for dts:x kept on delaying because it had lots of errors wich meant as good as their death sentence while the competition had allready been on the bluraymarket for almost 2 years. contracts had been made more and more with dolby and everything else is history, even auro has more mixes for blockbusters in theatres than dts:x.
but in the end i never really cared wich one is better and if you care about that really hard it is because some people are insecure when it comes to audio and to hide that insecureness people defend dts because louder is better right 😉
they are both similar and then again not, much depends who mixes it for the bluray home experience but both work just fine. also source material is sometimes different from system to system and dts likes to mix decibels up, they are famous for this lol
THE FUTURE OF ATMOS IS 9.1.4 or 7.1.6, they are allready on the market for around 4000 dollar wich is my great wish to get me one of those.
i hope i contributed to the debate,
Tim
Hi Tim, I couldn’t agree more with your assessment of the situation!
Hi Steve,
Glad i could help!
Offcourse i think Dts:x needs to stay supported, diversity learns a lot more about sound than 1 platform. We got 3 great platforms nowadays so why do we need to choose 1? Some movies sound better in auro but they get atmos or dts:x at home… the new auro 24 channel system is amazing but still sometimes i prefer atmos or dts:x, my ears aren’t always in the mood to figure out more than 9 channels lol saving private ryan is CRAZY
I also believe that DTS-X is superior. However, I enjoy Atmos as well. At the end, both are good. The guy doing the sound, the director intentions and the story line is what really make the difference.
Put me in the DTS X sound better category. I’ve always felt DTS just sounded cleaner and more dynamic compared to Dolby Digital/Tru Hd/Atmos cause that format sounds like its in a vacuum . Just flatter and duller….
I’m running a 11.2 set up with 4 speakers in ceiling and 7 floor, 2 15 inch subs. Atmos absolutely sucks on comparison with DTS X. DTS X clear winner by far
I am also running an 11.2 set up with 4 SVS down firing speakers, and 2 subs(15)s that sounds like it’s from another world in DTS-X. My only problem is finding that format’s material. I was going to download Auro-3d for an additional $150 -$200.00, if it can upconvert my soundtracks to DTS-X. Anyway, I find myself watching tv shows just to hear them on my system. The best sounding series is on the CW channel “Legacies”. They use Upmixed Dolby Surround, or DTS-X. I need more material with this format.
Auro-3D has it’s own upconverter, but it won’t convert things to DTS:X. The Neural:X upmixer is what you want to upmix older audio formats to something as close as possible to DTS:X.
Most problem for DTS is in my opinion the missing support for DTS on major TV products like Samsung, LG and many others.
If you have your movies located on a network drive like a NAS, it is impossible to hear DTS coded sounds with these TVs, since they don’t even pass-through the DTS signal to an external Receiver for decoding.
Sad to say, but to me it seems that DTS has already lost the battle.