Dolby Takes Atmos into the Home Theater

摘要

Dolby Laboratories held a demonstration day to showcase both its cinema and home theater applications of Dolby Atmos sound technology at its New York City offices. The company's senior director of sound technology research, Brett Crockett, and its director of content creation and playback, Craig Egg-ers, provided background and explanation on how it all works. Dolby ran an "apples-to-apples" comparison of the Atmos cinema version-which employs multiple overhead speakers for a height effect-against Atmos-enabled speakers in a home theater setting whereby certain speakers, which either contain Atmos-enabled upward-firing modules or are tethered to Atmos-enabled upward-firing modules, work in tandem with Dolby Atmos-endowed AV receivers to produce the height effect without overhead-positioned speakers.