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This announcement comes late as the movie will be released in 10 days on January 26th, but it’s now confirmed that Goosebumps from Sony Pictures will feature a Dolby Atmos soundtrack.
The only caveat, as it was the case with Pixels, is that the Atmos track is only present on the 2D version of the movie. Note that the disc is also provided with the 3D Blu-ray set, but you won’t have the track on the 3D disc.
Looking forward to this one with the family as it should have an opportunity to use Atmos efficiently.
You can now count Lions Gate in the list of studios supporting Ultra HD titles. The studio just announced that their first 4 titles will be available starting March 1st and that all will include immersive audio. The launch titles are :
Just a quick post to confirm that Sherlock : The Abominable Bride has been releasedby the BBC in North America on Blu-ray with a Dolby Atmos soundtrack. I waited on this one as it was hard to get an official confirmation, but I have the disc in my hands and can confirm now.
According to Amazon and Blu-ray.com, it seems that March 1st is the release date for the first group of Fox UltraHD Blu-ray titles. As already reported the titles are :
The thing that is really compelling here is that a lot of the announced movies from the studios were missed opportunities for Atmos on Blu-ray, so there’s a big hope that we can finally have immersive audio on the titles (note that Fox confirmed they will not include the track on Blu-ray, what a bad move).
Of the currently known movie that will be released in UHD here are the ones that I hope will finally get the Atmos treatment at home :
As you can see, this is a LOT of potential for Dolby Atmos at home with a lot of great titles. I specially look forward for the Maze Runner titles as they already have impressive soundtracks in 7.1.
There is finally a tentative timeline for the release of the first UltraHD Blu-ray player from Samsung, the UBD-K8500. Samsung reported in their conference a release date of Mid-February 2016 with a pre-order pricing of 399$ and a MSRP of 499$.
The other good news is that the player will feature dual HDMI outputs so you can use your non HDCP 2.2 compliant AV receiver to playback sound in high resolution formats.
Finally, it seems we have a date for DTS:X, at least for Denon owners.
Denon confirmed this week that the DTS:X update to their flagship receiver (AVR-X7200W/AVR-X7200WA) will be available on January 28th. The AVR-X6200W and AVR-X4200W will get the firmware a couple of weeks later on February 18th.
The other compatible receivers from Denon will receive the firmware later in 2016.
Let’s see how the other manufacturers will react to this and when they will announce availability for their DTS:X compatible devices.
We finally have a second studio joining Lionsgate for DTS:X audio tracks on Blu-ray. The Guillermo Del Toro movie Crimson Peak will be released on February 9th with a DTS:X soundtrack.
