The movie that won the Best Sound Editing Oscar in 2015, American Sniper, will be available on May 19th with a Dolby Atmos soundtrack.
For my friends in Quebec, please note that for the first time in North America, it seems that the movie will be coming with a French Dolby Atmos soundtrack to.
Finally, after weeks without any announcement, Warner Brothers confirmed that they will release the science-fiction movie Jupiter Ascending on June 2nd with an english track in Dolby Atmos.
I have updated the list of Dolby Atmos releases accordingly.
A quick update, after weeks without any next generation home theater news, to let you know than in an invitation sent to media outlets yesterday, DTS announced that details regarding their new 3D object-based audio format DTS:X will be given at an event hold in their headquarter on April 9th in Calabasas, California.
More details to come in a mere 10 days, which should ramp up again interest in new home theater titles with object based audio.
I don’t know if “When it rain it pours” is really adapted to the situation, but after more than two weeks without anything announced related to next generation home theater, I have a second announcement for you in less than 12 hours.
Universal announced today it’s first ever Blu-ray with a Dolby Atmos soundtrack, for the Angelina Jolie’s directed movie Unbroken.
The movie will be released on March 24th and it will then become the 9th movie available on Blu-ray with Dolby Atmos in North America. Hey, we’re almost double digits now…
Please note the listing of Dolby Atmos Blu-rays has been updated accordingly.
Multiple sources seem to confirm that the new documentary about moto racing called On Any Sunday : The Next Chapter, which extended trailer was one of the demos on the Atmos demo disc, has indeed been released with a Dolby Atmos track.
The Blu-ray is out today on Amazon and details are not included to confirm, but multiple sources are confirming the Atmos inclusion.
You can follow the link on the image to purchase from Amazon. I will let you know as soon as I can try the disc. Meanwhile, I updated the list of Atmos Blu-rays on the site.
With the great support that Lionsgate is offering to Dolby and the Dolby Atmos format, it’s not a surprise to see that Hunger Games : Mockingjay Part 1 will be released on March 6th in Blu-ray with an Atmos track.
The movie will also offers the following special features :
The list of Dolby Atmos movies have been updated. It’s interesting to see some traction on Dolby Atmos releases in this new year.
Just a quick note to tell you that the team at Onkyo Germany is working on updating their Ambra – Prism of Live ambiance Blu-ray to have a Dolby Atmos soundtrack.
There is already a downloadable demo on their webpage here. You need to either burn the ISO file on a Blu-ray disc or extract the m2ts file from it and play it with your media player.
I did test the content yesterday and even if I cannot say I’m a fan of the type of music used, there is some interesting positioning effects, mostly with voices during the 4 minutes and 50 seconds demo.
If you got a Dolby Atmos system at home, give it a try and let me know what you think through the comments !
Update : Since this news, Lionsgate released a press release saying the movie would only offer DTS HD Master Audio 5.1, so I removed the movie from the list. Sorry for this and thanks to Chris for notifying me.
Lionsgate announced yesterday the upcoming release of the science-fiction thriller Vice, starring Bruce Willis, on Blu-ray with a Dolby Atmos DTS HD Master Audio soundtrack. The movie, which just got released in theaters, will be available for home theaters on March 17th.
You can purchase the movie on Amazon.com by clicking on the movie poster above.
I don’t know how I missed it before, but looking at the information available on the Blu-ray release details of John Wick, staring Keenu Reeves, we can see that it will feature a Dolby Atmos soundtrack.
With a release date of February 3rd, it will become the fifth movie release for home theater with Dolby Atmos track.
I updated the list of Blu-ray movies with Dolby Atmos present on the site with the related information.
As you may have read in my three wishes for CES 2015, Blu-ray 4K was in my mind the most important announcement of the show this year. After a limited press releases last September announcing the format would be launched for the 2015 holiday period, CES was the perfect timing to hope to see players in action and ideally a commitment from studios to the format. After watching the webcast of the press conferences at the show on Monday, it’s hard to be very satisfied with what was announced.
The only company that presented something was Panasonic, who showed a prototype player, pictured above, supporting 4K video output at 60p, 10-bit gradation of colours and high dynamic range, all of this through an impressive debit of 100 Mbps coming from the disc format. This is all of course tentative as the format standards has not been confirmed yet.
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