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 Mockingjay Lives: The Making of Mockingjay – Part 1”: 8 part feature-length documentary
“Straight From the Heart: A Tribute to Philip Seymour Hoffman” featurette
“Songs of Rebellion: Lorde on Curating the Soundtrack” featurette
“Yellow Flicker Beat” – Lorde music video
Deleted Scenes
Audio Commentary with Director Francis Lawrence and Producer
Nina Jacobson
Sneak Peek of The Divergent Series: Insurgent
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.
In term of technology, I never complained about the early adopter tax : the fact that as enthusiasts we pay more for new technology that was just recently released. I somehow get more frustrated when important issues hit a new device (e.g. Xbox 360 red ring of death or Harman Kardon DVD macroblocks) and early adopters end up with more problems than joy.
But honestly, that never stopped me from buying new technology, just for the rush of trying it as early as possible and to be able to share impressions about it and bring other people to experience it with me. In that sense, early adopters, when treated well, are the best ambassadors of any new technology product. I cannot count the number of DVD players, home theater systems, LCD televisions and other technology I recommended and helped people purchase over the last decade. Make me happy with a new technology launch and I’ll almost wear a tattoo of its name wherever you want me to.
How Reviews Are Done On NextGenHomeTheater.com : Here are some ground rules for review on this site. The first thing is that the movie itself will never be reviewed, as this is not the intention and tastes and opinion regarding movies are up to the viewer. Furthermore, the review will concentrate on the next generation element of the content, so in this case the Dolby Atmos track, while presenting the other aspects. A Blu-Ray 4K would for example be reviewed for visual performance only. There will not by any grades either, just comments and a purchase recommandation in the conclusion.
The Movie
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is another reboot in the recent wave of 80’s and 90’s popular culture rebirth. Is this new version, the four turtles, helped by April and Splinter, will try to stop Shredder and his Foot Clan from getting control of New York City.
Waking up from the holiday celebrations this morning, I realized that CES was now only four days away. To be honest, the last couple of years I had mostly lost interest in the show. Bigger TVs, almost identical wearable gear and more bluetooth speakers were making the show pretty boring.
2015 is a different story. Maybe it’s personal, but I feel that this year new technologies announced at CES will impact the home theater in a meaningful way. I can assure you that this time I’ll be following closely the announcements next Tuesday and reporting here as soon as possible.
While we wait for the event to take place, here are three things that are not official yet that I would like to see happen next week in Las Vegas.
How Reviews Are Done On NextGenHomeTheater.com : Here is the first content review on the blog. Before getting into Step Up All In, let’s set some ground rules for review on this site. The first thing is that the movie itself will never be reviewed, as this is not the intention and tastes and opinion regarding movies are up to the viewer. Furthermore, the review will concentrate on the next generation element of the content, so in this case the Dolby Atmos track, while presenting the other aspects. A Blu-Ray 4K would for example be reviewed for visual performance only. There will not by any numbers either, just comments and a purchase recommandation in the conclusion.
The Movie
Step Up All In is the fifth instalment of the series and regroup characters from the previous movies while they regroup in Las Vegas for a dance competition called The Vortex with the ultimate price of running their own show in Sin City for three years.
I fondly remember the year 1999. Why ? It’s the year where I went back five times to the home audio video store to buy, return and upgrade my first home theater system.
You see, I just had purchase my first home DVD player a couple of weeks before. After learning everything about black bars and aspect ratios and overcoming the shock of not using all of my TV to watch movies (I was young and naive), I quickly realized that listening to movies on my old stereo system was not really an option. I needed to leverage the full capacity of that new player and hear the movie the way it was intended to be : in the right aspect ratio with surround sound.
The first sound system I bought one was simply a Pro Logic system, for a matter of not investing too much I imagine. I came back home, enabled Dolby Surround on my system and waited for something great to happen. And nothing great happened. I sat down, watched a couple of movies, trying to concentrate to hear surround sound coming from the tiny “home theater in a box” speakers that came with the system but could barely hear effects.
