Warner Brothers just announced that San Andreas, featuring Dwayne Johnson, will feature a Dolby Atmos soundtrack on Blu-ray when it is released on October 20th.
As usual, the list of Dolby Atmos movies available on Blu-ray have been updated.
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Game of Thrones Season 1 to 4 to be remixed in Dolby Atmos
If you were looking for more content to watch in your shiny new Dolby Atmos receiver, look no more. HBO just announced that the first four seasons of the show will be released again on Blu-ray with a Dolby Atmos soundtrack.
The first two seasons will be available on November 3 while the other two seasons release date will be confirmed soon.
Now that’s a lot more hours of content to watch, which is refreshing during the drought of announcements we are going through right now.
The 20th Century Fox releases four UHD titles with HDR on M-GO
After announcing in May that they would be one of the strong supporters of HDR and UHD Blu-ray, Fox followed suit recently by releasing their four first movies in Ultra HD resolution with HDR metadata.
The movies are first released through M-GO, the streaming / download movie service. You need a compatible 4K Samsung TV to download and watch those movies as the company as an exclusive contract for this service.
The four movies that are already released are Life of Pi, Kingman : The Secret Service, The Maze Runner and Exodus : Gods and Kings.
Could it be the first four UHD titles from Fox when the format release ? Only time will tell, but at least we are starting to see more and more content in 4K become available.
Age of Adaline announced with Dolby Atmos on Blu-ray
Lionsgate announce that the Blu-ray version of Age of Adaline, featuring Harrison Ford will be offered with a Dolby Atmos soundtrack on September 8th.
As usual, the list of Dolby Atmos movies available on Blu-ray have been updated.
Ex Machina : First Blu-ray With DTS:X
Lionsgate announced through a press release that the science-fiction movie Ex Machina will be released on July 14th with a DTS:X soundtrack, thus becoming the first movie announced what will feature the format.
The movie will also have a DTS Headphone:X soundtrack, joining the latest Hunger Games movie in this format.
Please note I create a page with the list of announced DTS:X movies.
Insurgent Blu-ray Will Feature Dolby Atmos
Lionsgate confirmed today that the second movie in the Divergent series, Insurgent, will be available on August 4th with a Dolby Atmos soundtrack in both 2D and 3D editions.
As usual, the list of Dolby Atmos movies available on Blu-rays have been updated.
Ultra HD Bluray logo and final specs revealed
As the saying go, when it rains (and it actually rains a lot here today) it pours. After the Onkyo announcement of DTS:X receivers this morning, the Blu-ray Disc Association announced today that the specifications for the new Ultra HD Blu-ray format are now final and they also released the new logo at the same time.
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Onkyo announces its first DTS:X compatible receivers
Onkyo just announced this morning their first two 2015 receivers to support the new upcoming DTS:X format (through a firmware upgrade to come later this year). The TX-NR646 and TX-NR747 will offer both 7 channels of amplification for a maximum setup of 5.1.2 speakers.
The other important information is that both will support HDMI 2.0a and HDCP 2.2 at the required bandwidth of 18 Gbps.
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The Gunman from Universal will feature Dolby Atmos
From the press release provided by Universal yesterday, it seems that The Gunman, featuring Sean Penn, Idris Elba, Ray Winstone, Mark Rylance and Javier Bardem, will be presented with a Dolby Atmos track on Blu-ray.
Similar to John Wick, this would be exclusive to the Blu-ray as the movie was not presented with a Dolby Atmos soundtrack in theater. It seems that Universal is strongly pushing for the format now.
As always, the movie details have been added to the list of Dolby Atmos Blu-rays.
DTS:X details announced, the surprise is not in the home
Last Thursday was the official announcement of DTS:X at the DTS headquarters in California. I was pretty eager to learn a couple of things at the event, including if my current Onkyo receiver would be updatable to support the format and which movies were going to be announced by DTS on Blu-ray.
Surprisingly, the most important part of the announcement is that DTS is going back in the commercial theater business through a licensing program that will allow them to install their technologies in cinemas around the world. We were awaiting an home-theater only announcement, and finally it seems that the strategy is pretty different, thus delaying the home theater implementation a little bit more that I had in mind.
In the home, DTS:x confirmed what we already knew regarding the format, which is extremely similar to Dolby Atmos with the differences depending mostly on the way the receiver companies will implement the format. Dialogue volume management, which is a great feature in itself, will depend on the studio implementing it or not in their movie mixing, hopefully they will.
DTS did not announce any partnership with studios and no title on Blu-ray, we are looking more at an end of the year timing, like it’s been the case roughly with Atmos.
On the receiver side, if you don’t have the high-end Denon X7200 or Marantz AV8802, you’re out of luck for a firmware upgrade it seems. According to the press release, they are the only two that will receive an update this fall, while the different companies will release new receivers supporting DTS:X at the same period. Onkyo confirmed to me on social media that they will not be any upgrade path for any of their receiver, including the 1030 or 3030. It’s a letdown, but not a surprise as it just confirmed the rumours.
So it looks like the next real updates on the format will be only this fall, time to go back to Atmos and listen to the available movies. Of course, I’m already on board with updating this fall to DTS:X, as soon as receivers and titles are available. I will keep you updated with any news in the meantime.