You'll feel like you're inside the action as the sounds of people, music, and things come alive with breathtaking realism and move all around you in three-dimensional space.
Reproduces up to 128 simultaneous audio objects in a mix for rich, realistic, and breathtaking sound.
Dolby Atmos® discs and online content are fully compatible for playback on conventional stereo and on 5.1- and 7.1-channel systems, giving you the same outstanding experience you’ve always enjoyed.
As movie directors increasingly choose Dolby Atmos for their soundtracks, you'll find a growing library of movies and other content on Blu-ray Disc™ and online from premium services.
Prime Video now supports Dolby Atmos. Feel like you're inside the action of Prime Original series with Dolby Atmos.
Prime Video now supports Dolby Atmos. Feel like you're inside the action of Prime Original series with Dolby Atmos.
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Equip your home theater with the latest products, and learn how to set them up for the best sound.
Dolby Atmos lets you experience powerful, moving audio that flows around you. Discover Dolby partners that provide you with immersive, cinema-style sound in your home.
Dolby Atmos lets you experience powerful, moving audio that flows around you. Discover Dolby partners that provide you with immersive, cinema-style sound in your home.
Dolby Atmos is based on the concept of audio objects. Any sound can be mixed as a single audio element, an object, that's independently placed in three-dimensional space. A child shouting, a helicopter lifting off, a blaring car horn—the filmmaker can decide exactly where the sound should originate and where it should move as the scene develops.
This approach allows the filmmakers to focus on the story. For channel-based audio, filmmakers must determine which speakers should reproduce which sounds, an approach that could compromise the artistic intent. With Dolby Atmos, filmmakers simply determine where the sound should be located within a scene, and the system intelligently makes the speaker-assignment decisions. Audio objects originate and move anywhere in three-dimensional space, including anywhere overhead. You will experience a soundtrack as you would in a real-world environment.
Dolby Atmos supports up to 128 simultaneous audio objects. These include stationary sounds that are reproduced through all the speakers, such as a music background or ambient effects. Content mastered for home reproduction includes all the audio objects from the original film, placed in three-dimensional space, just as in the cinema.
Descriptive metadata accompanies every Dolby Atmos soundtrack, specifying the exact placement and movement of the audio objects. A Dolby Atmos powered AVR reads the metadata and determines how to use the speakers in your specific setup to best recreate this precise placement and movement. Dolby Atmos is highly scalable. You can play a Dolby Atmos movie and get the spatial effects on nearly any speaker configuration in a home Dolby Atmos system, and adding speakers increases the precision of the audio placement. You can have up to 24 speakers on the floor and 10 overhead.
The technology also enables overhead sounds that enhance realism and make the sound more expansive. Overhead sounds can be produced by either overhead speakers or special Dolby Atmos enabled speakers that fire sound up to the ceiling, where it is reflected back down as overhead sound.
Other home theater audio technologies, even those that add height information, still rely on channels and do not create audio objects. No matter how many channels they use, they cannot duplicate the free movement of sounds that gives Dolby Atmos its unique realism.
You'll find a growing number of Dolby Atmos movies on Blu-ray Disc or through streaming video services. As Hollywood increases the number of cinematic movies in Dolby Atmos, you'll see the list of home releases grow, too.
Dolby Atmos content plays through standard Blu-ray™ players and streaming media players connected to your AVR via HDMI® and with the bitstream output function engaged. The Dolby Atmos powered AVR manages all decoding, rendering, and processing.
Dolby Atmos discs and streaming feeds are backward compatible. Even if you don't have a Dolby Atmos setup, you can still play Dolby Atmos content and enjoy the same outstanding sound you've been getting from your stereo, 5.1, or 7.1 system.
Dolby Atmos lets you experience powerful, moving audio that flows around you. Discover Dolby partners that provide you with immersive, cinema-style sound in your home.
Dolby Atmos lets you experience powerful, moving audio that flows around you. Discover Dolby partners that provide you with immersive, cinema-style sound in your home.
Dolby Atmos combines traditional home theater speaker layouts with additional speaker positions. These include either overhead speakers or new Dolby Atmos enabled speakers designed to reproduce the overhead audio objects. Alternatively, you can choose a Dolby Atmos enabled sound bar.
We designed Dolby Atmos to be backward compatible, so it will play on existing channel-based systems as well as new Dolby Atmos setups. And a connected TV or set-top box that is Dolby Atmos Compatible can pass a Dolby Atmos signal through to other devices—such as AVRs with Dolby Atmos technology—that can decode the signal. You'll always hear the optimum mix for your system, from stereo to 5.1 or 7.1.
If you already have a 5.1, 7.1, or greater surround sound system, you'll most likely be able to build on it. Because Dolby Atmos uses the same basic speaker layouts, you probably won't need to reconfigure your room.
Here's a brief overview of the equipment you'll need. For more comprehensive information, see the Home Theater Setup Guide and the Dolby Atmos Speaker Setup Guide. For equipment choices, check out the latest Dolby Atmos Home Theater Products, and watch for announcements throughout the year.
Dolby Atmos content is delivered on Blu-ray Disc or through streaming video services. To play it back, you'll need any of the following equipment:
Whichever you choose, set the player to bitstream output and connect to the receiver via HDMI. (Be sure to also disengage the secondary audio feature on your Blu-ray player.) Dolby Atmos is compatible with the current HDMI® specification (v1.4 and later). Be sure your player supports this version.
You'll need an AVR or a preamp/processor that supports Dolby Atmos. This handles all of the necessary signal processing and rendering. You'll find a growing selection from leading AVR and component manufacturers.
Overhead sound is an integral part of Dolby Atmos. Adding this capability to your home theater system is key to your moving audio experience. You have two options for overhead sound:
For the best sound, look for full-range speakers with wide dispersion characteristics, plus timbre and power matched to your primary speakers.
This is the more practical alternative for most setups. Dolby Atmos enabled speakers are specially engineered to direct sound upward, where it reflects off the ceiling to produce an incredibly lifelike recreation of overhead sound. Dolby Atmos enabled speakers come in two versions:
Dolby Atmos enabled speakers are designed to work best in rooms with ceilings that are from 2.3 to 4.3 meters (7.5 to 14 feet) in height and that have acoustically reflective surfaces, such as drywall or plaster.
A Dolby Atmos enabled HTIB will include the receiver, sometimes a Blu-ray player, a matched set of speakers, and all necessary wires. Usually it's all packaged in a single box, hence the name. An HTIB may be an ideal choice for a small room.
A Dolby Atmos enabled sound bar is the simplest path to the Dolby Atmos experience. The sound bar contains all the Dolby Atmos processing, amplification, and direct- and upward-firing speakers. Setup involves only a single-wire connection to your TV and single-wire or Wi-Fi connections to your program sources (set-top box, media streamer, Blu-ray player.)
Dolby Atmos home theaters can be built upon traditional 5.1 and 7.1 layouts. For Dolby Atmos, the nomenclature differs slightly: a 7.1.4 Dolby Atmos system is a traditional 7.1 layout with four overhead or Dolby Atmos enabled speakers.
You will need at least two speakers, either overhead or Dolby Atmos enabled, that can generate overhead sound and objects. For the best experience of Dolby Atmos, we recommend four speakers.
The AVR automatically optimizes the Dolby Atmos playback for your speaker complement and layout. Again, see the Dolby Atmos Speaker Setup Guide for comprehensive information and diagrams.
Dolby Atmos lets you experience powerful, moving audio that flows around you. Discover Dolby partners that provide you with immersive, cinema-style sound in your home.
Dolby Atmos lets you experience powerful, moving audio that flows around you. Discover Dolby partners that provide you with immersive, cinema-style sound in your home.
Deliver breathtaking Dolby Atmos® sound for live events, with moving audio that puts viewers right in the action.
Take advantage of the large and growing library of movies, TV shows, and music in Dolby Atmos from major Hollywood studios and content creators worldwide.
Key solutions vendors already support Dolby Atmos for broadcast, streaming, and hybrid delivery, using existing workflows over existing networks.
Dolby Atmos complements the visual enhancements of Dolby Vision™ and Ultra HD™, so you can deliver compelling new experiences in sight and sound.
Take a leading position in the rollout of UHD video with support for premium immersive audio. Position your network for the future with next-generation broadcast technologies and experiences, and give consumers access to the premier immersive sound experience.
Enable the delivery of the rapidly growing list of premium content available in Dolby Atmos, and take a leadership position in delivering immersive audio for live sports to draw fans closer to the action and the experience on the field.
Position your products for the future by making them ready for next-generation broadcast technologies and experiences. Leverage the work that you have already done to support Dolby Audio™ in your products and extend your support for Dolby Audio to Dolby Atmos.
Supporting Dolby Atmos primes your products for the next era in audio, giving broadcasters and OTT operators the flexibility to deliver the best home entertainment experiences now and into the future.
Get the edge in delivering the immersive audio your customers will expect in the future.
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Dolby Atmos lets you experience powerful, moving audio that flows around you. Discover Dolby partners that provide you with immersive, cinema-style sound in your home.
Dolby Atmos lets you experience powerful, moving audio that flows around you. Discover Dolby partners that provide you with immersive, cinema-style sound in your home.