What is Dolby Atmos? Everything You Need To Know

Thanks for the awesome comments, everyone! This was a fun video to make, and I love strolling down memory lane with you all about first surround sound experiences. Many of them sound like my own! Now, what should we explain next?

first time I heard surround sound at home (UK) was watching Top Gun DVD on my new NICAM (remember that?) TV. The opening sequence of the planes taking off from the carrier were jaw-dropping by the standards of the day.

I have 5.1 unit and I just use it stereo, why? because anything in surround or Atmos sounds awful. Atmos is just rubbish and spoils everything.

Very interesting. Thanks

Thanks. Ps5 soundbar and the compatible games is nice with atmos. Ps5 setting and soundbar indicator enabled so I didn’t know what it was but I knew it sounded better.

I have the Samsung QN90B TV which supports Dolby Atmos and my PS5 which also supports Dolby Atmos.
My question: Can i hear Dolby Atmos only with these two? Even just a little?
Or is it better just to turn it off?

earthquake

Watching from Philippines

Star wars return of the jedi

The Rock (1996) by Michael Bay was my first experience. Yes, that helicopter flying around. It was actually the second DTS movie theatre in the country, a feat for the size of the town and the cinema itself. :)

7.1.4 would be 11, not 9

Since every sound has its channel, you can scale the speakers all you want and get the desired effect. Also, the sounds aren't mixed at the channel level, only at the speaker one, so you'll get a better quality sound.

Now I wonder how they create Atmos audio and how that data looks

Very well explained and still simple to understand. Thank You

I have a Logitech Z906 set up for surround sound. When connected to PC i can see my sounds display, the speakers support dolby Atmos, and DTS but when I have Dolby Access set up it says the sound device is incompatible. Is there a solution to have them set up on the dobly access app?

Does anyone still remember Dolby Atmos? (Or was it 3D glasses?) Thanks for this video taking me down memory lane of dead formats. Atmos included.

first surround sound? Poltergeist!

multi driver multi speakers angle as amazing sound depth disguise

a fancy word like bose system

Gladiator

Dolby prologics from starwars

My parents were obsessed with cinema and so I grew up in a home that always had a movie teather in the living room, i have watched so many movies on that and it always blew me away, now i have the old 5.1 surround that they gave me after buying an atmos system, so many memories 😊

I can save you lot of time and tell you what Dolby Atmos is. In a nutshell, it’s nothing. Literally worthless branded hot air that makes absolutely no difference when you watch a movie. For decades Dolby has been giant scam.

The power of not watching digital trends 👍

my dad bought a 7.1 surround sound and we wired it up together and the first movie we watched was Pirates of the Caribbean at worlds end… i’ll never forget, hearing the sound come from all around me.

Great simple explanations 👍👍

I need 2 eARC in and 1 eARC out switch, any suggestions?

I've heard Dolby Atmos in both theaters and in homes, and there's literally no difference between Atmos and regular surround sound.

Since Summer of 2023 I have owned a 55-Inch LG B6 4K UHD Multi-HDR w/ Dolby Vision Smart OLED TV (2016) an Apple TV 4K UHD HDR/Dolby Vision Smart Streaming Media Player with tvOS 12 and Dolby Atmos, an Oppo UDP203 4K UHD HDR/Dolby Vision Blu-Ray Player with Dolby Atmos & DTS:X and an Denon AVRS970H 7.2 Channel Dolby Atmos & DTSX Premium Home Theater Audio-Video Receiver with Audyssey MultEQ Room Correction Software Technology Including Dynamic Volume and Dynamic EQ 8K/60-4K/120 Passthrough/Upscaling and Multi-HDR w/ Dolby Vision (2022/23) connected and paired with both a Klipsch 5.1.2 Channel Wired Full-On Premium Dolby Atmos & DTSX Home Theater Moving Surround Sound System with Two Klipsch Floorstanding Loudspeakers with Two Dolby Atmos/DTSX Upward-Firing Height Elevation Loudspeakers Two Klipsch Biople Surround Loudspeakers One Klipsch Center Channel Loudspeaker and One 12-Inch Klipsch Subwoofer and 5 HDMI 2.0 cable connections. My LG OLED B6 4K Multi-HDR w/Dolby Vision 55-Inch Smart TV (2016) does not have Dolby Atmos over HDMI ARC meaning streaming apps like Netflix both won’t show Dolby Atmos or output the Dolby Atmos signal from the tv to the receiver however in order to get both Dolby Atmos to be outputted and work very flawlessly correctly and a lot of films tv shows music etc to show Dolby Atmos on many streaming apps I have to connect my Apple TV 4K UHD HDR/Dolby Vision Smart Streaming Media Player with tvOS 12 and Dolby Atmos into the Denon AVRS970H 7.2 Channel Dolby Atmos & DTSX Premium Home Theater Surround Audio/Video Receiver and not only many streaming media apps like Netflix Amazon Prime Video Disney Plus Max Paramount Plus and Apple TV Plus/iTunes Films and TV and even Apple Music show the Dolby Atmos logo on many films tv shows and music but I got many Dolby Atmos films tv shows and music to work very flawlessly and correctly and even better the Dolby Atmos signal is being outputted and sent from the Apple TV 4K HDR w/ Dolby Vision & Dolby Atmos to the Denon AVRS970H 7.2 Channel Dolby Atmos & DTSX Premium Home Theater Surround Audio-Video Receiver in order for the input signal to say Dolby Atmos while also passing through the 4K HDR or Dolby Vision video signals from the Denon AVRS970H Dolby Atmos Receiver to the LG OLED B6 4K HDR Dolby Vision 55-Inch Smart TV and I love watching listening and enjoying many Dolby Atmos films tv shows and music on my Apple TV Streaming Media Player way more than my built-in tv app from my LG OLED B6 4K HDR Dolby Vision 55-Inch Smart TV and I am finally able to get Dolby Atmos content to work very flawlessly on the Apple TV 4K HDR Dolby Vision Streaming Media Player with TVOS12 and Dolby Atmos even though my LG OLED B6 4K HDR Dolby Vision Smart 55-Inch TV doesn’t support Dolby Atmos however I have my Oppo 4K HDR w/Dolby Vision Blu Ray Player with Dolby Atmos/DTSX is connected to the Denon AVRS970H 7.2 Channel Dolby Atmos and DTSX Home Theater Receiver and I have a lot of 4K HDR Blu rays that all have a Dolby Atmos soundtrack and even though many films that I have on 4K HDR Blu Ray show the Dolby Atmos logo on many of their main menus the bad news is that the Dolby Atmos signal is not being outputted from the 4K HDR Blu Ray player to the Denon AVRS970H 7.2 Channels Dolby Atmos/DTSX Home Theater Receiver in order for the input signal to say Dolby Atmos However I am very lucky my receiver definitely supports Dolby Surround Upmixing Technology that upmixes and upscales non-Dolby Atmos signals into Dolby 3D Object-Based Multidimensional Moving Surround Sound which includes the Multiple Upward-Firing Height Elevation Loudspeakers Two Front Loudspeakers Two Surround Speakers One Center Channel Loudspeaker and One Big Subwoofer and I love using Dolby Surround Upmixer for both watching listening and enjoying to 5.1 content (both disc & streamed) and even Dolby Atmos BluRay Discs not being outputted from the Blu Ray player to the Denon AVRS970H 7.2 Channel Dolby Atmos/DTSX Home Theater Receiver for a very very immersive impactful atmospheric three dimensional and a good but not the greatest/best Dolby Atmos Blu Ray quality quality Also even my Denon AVRS970H 7.2 Channel Dolby Atmos/DTSX Home Theater Receiver was very immersive room-filling cinematic enjoyable three-dimensional fully detailed/realistic richer dynamic powerful bass/treble-heavy cleaner crisper deeper punchy sharper higher-end and the Klipsch Upward Firing Elevation Dolby Atmos/DTSX Loudspeakers that bounce sound off a flat 8 foot ceiling and down to the listener work very flawlessly as if I was right in the middle and right in the center of and pulls me deeper into the action just as the way the singers musical artists/bands the filmmakers: directors producers cinematographers production designers color graders visual effects team editorial team sound effects & musical team: the sound editors sound mixers sound designers dialogue/adr team foley team sound engineers/recordists composers conductors score mixers/recording artists music producers orchestrators arrangers intended them to watch enjoy and experience in

Not everything you're saying is true . 5.1 and 7.1 can also produce independent sound individual speaker . you sound like an infomercial or representative for Dolby Atmos good grief at least be honest lol

Twister! My first dvd, we’ll and Matrix

What if the actors are white water rafting? Don’t we need speakers in the floor to capture the sound of flowing water? Is this left for the future revenue gains after people had spent on current technology?

Crazy o never thought of speakers in the ceiling

Loved this! Brilliant explanation.

My question is: I have an Atmos capable AV receiver with a 5.1 speaker arrangement. When listening to Atmos content should I select Atmos or Dolby Neu X to get the best effect?

I'm 61 and I first my movie and it was Earthquake back in 1974, and it was the first movie and they invented surround speakers, so thanks too Earthquake we have surround sound as we know and the rest is history 👍🏻

The first surround sound I heard was at a large music concert.
There were no digitised sounds at the time, nor any kind of FFT processing. The great sound we all heard was produced with some clever application of phase shifting techniques...

Since Summer of 2023 I have owned a 55-Inch LG B6 4K UHD Multi-HDR w/ Dolby Vision Smart OLED TV (2016) an Apple TV 4K UHD HDR/Dolby Vision Smart Streaming Media Player with tvOS 12 and Dolby Atmos, an Oppo UDP203 4K UHD HDR/Dolby Vision Blu-Ray Player with Dolby Atmos & DTS:X and an Denon AVRS970H 7.2 Channel Dolby Atmos & DTSX Premium Home Theater Audio-Video Receiver with Audyssey MultEQ Room Correction Software Technology Including Dynamic Volume and Dynamic EQ 8K/60-4K/120 Passthrough/Upscaling and Multi-HDR w/ Dolby Vision (2022/23) connected and paired with both a Klipsch 5.1.2 Channel Wired Full-On Premium Dolby Atmos & DTSX Home Theater Moving Surround Sound System with Two Klipsch Floorstanding Loudspeakers with Two Dolby Atmos/DTSX Upward-Firing Height Elevation Loudspeakers Two Klipsch Biople Surround Loudspeakers One Klipsch Center Channel Loudspeaker and One 12-Inch Klipsch Subwoofer and 5 HDMI 2.0 cable connections. My LG OLED B6 4K Multi-HDR w/Dolby Vision 55-Inch Smart TV (2016) does not have Dolby Atmos over HDMI ARC meaning streaming apps like Netflix both won’t show Dolby Atmos or output the Dolby Atmos signal from the tv to the receiver however in order to get both Dolby Atmos to be outputted and work very flawlessly correctly and a lot of films tv shows music etc to show Dolby Atmos on many streaming apps I have to connect my Apple TV 4K UHD HDR/Dolby Vision Smart Streaming Media Player with tvOS 12 and Dolby Atmos into the Denon AVRS970H 7.2 Channel Dolby Atmos & DTSX Premium Home Theater Surround Audio/Video Receiver and not only many streaming media apps like Netflix Amazon Prime Video Disney Plus Max Paramount Plus and Apple TV Plus/iTunes Films and TV and even Apple Music show the Dolby Atmos logo on many films tv shows and music but I got many Dolby Atmos films tv shows and music to work very flawlessly and correctly and even better the Dolby Atmos signal is being outputted and sent from the Apple TV 4K HDR w/ Dolby Vision & Dolby Atmos to the Denon AVRS970H 7.2 Channel Dolby Atmos & DTSX Premium Home Theater Surround Audio-Video Receiver in order for the input signal to say Dolby Atmos while also passing through the 4K HDR or Dolby Vision video signals from the Denon AVRS970H Dolby Atmos Receiver to the LG OLED B6 4K HDR Dolby Vision 55-Inch Smart TV and I love watching listening and enjoying many Dolby Atmos films tv shows and music on my Apple TV Streaming Media Player way more than my built-in tv app from my LG OLED B6 4K HDR Dolby Vision 55-Inch Smart TV and I am finally able to get Dolby Atmos content to work very flawlessly on the Apple TV 4K HDR Dolby Vision Streaming Media Player with TVOS12 and Dolby Atmos even though my LG OLED B6 4K HDR Dolby Vision Smart 55-Inch TV doesn’t support Dolby Atmos however I have my Oppo 4K HDR w/Dolby Vision Blu Ray Player with Dolby Atmos/DTSX is connected to the Denon AVRS970H 7.2 Channel Dolby Atmos and DTSX Home Theater Receiver and I have a lot of 4K HDR Blu rays that all have a Dolby Atmos soundtrack and even though many films that I have on 4K HDR Blu Ray show the Dolby Atmos logo on many of their main menus the bad news is that the Dolby Atmos signal is not being outputted from the 4K HDR Blu Ray player to the Denon AVRS970H 7.2 Channels Dolby Atmos/DTSX Home Theater Receiver in order for the input signal to say Dolby Atmos However I am very lucky my receiver definitely supports Dolby Surround Upmixing Technology that upmixes and upscales non-Dolby Atmos signals into Dolby 3D Object-Based Multidimensional Moving Surround Sound which includes the Multiple Upward-Firing Height Elevation Loudspeakers Two Front Loudspeakers Two Surround Speakers One Center Channel Loudspeaker and One Big Subwoofer and I love using Dolby Surround Upmixer for both watching listening and enjoying to 5.1 content (both disc & streamed) and even Dolby Atmos BluRay Discs not being outputted from the Blu Ray player to the Denon AVRS970H 7.2 Channel Dolby Atmos/DTSX Home Theater Receiver for a very very immersive impactful atmospheric three dimensional and a good but not the greatest/best Dolby Atmos Blu Ray quality quality Also even my Denon AVRS970H 7.2 Channel Dolby Atmos/DTSX Home Theater Receiver was very immersive room-filling cinematic enjoyable three-dimensional fully detailed/realistic richer dynamic powerful bass/treble-heavy cleaner crisper deeper punchy sharper higher-end and the Klipsch Upward Firing Elevation Dolby Atmos/DTSX Loudspeakers that bounce sound off a flat 8 foot ceiling and down to the listener work very flawlessly as if I was right in the middle and right in the center of and pulls me deeper into the action just as the way the singers musical artists/bands the filmmakers: directors producers cinematographers production designers color graders visual effects team editorial team sound effects & musical team: the sound editors sound mixers sound designers dialogue/adr team foley team sound engineers/recordists composers conductors score mixers/recording artists music producers orchestrators arrangers intended them to watch enjoy and experience in

Question, I have a Yamaha TSR 5790 that has no atmos. Would adding atmos speakers to this receiver to the rear top wall make a difference in sound or would I need to upgrade to a atmos capable receiver to take the sound effect to the next level.

1st Surround experience was Star gate. My Fav. Surround moment is Star Trek: Generations (Bird of prey space fight)

I first heard surround sound in the first Batman movie (oh glorious Michael Keaton) back in 1998 or 9. My first home theater movie was Jurassic Park in a Denon Receiver + JBL speakers back in 2004. Magic! From VHS still. Not quite digital but the Denon and JBL did a pretty decent job. I still view Jurassic Park first on any new piece of hardware to this date. And Twister, of course. I can´t spread so many Atmos speakers in the house yet.

My first memory of surround type sound was ‘Lawrence of Arabia‘. The next was ‘Earthquake’ at a cinema in Leicester Square, though it was difficult to tell which deep rumbling sounds were ‘earthquakes’ from speakers and which were from trains on the Piccadilly Line underneath.

First home SSound movie I watched was Jurassic Park. The first time I really heard it surround me was the opening scene from Saving Private Ryan. Watching a particular Band of Brother Epi, a surprise mortar round actually sounded like it flew into my living room and scared the crap out of me.

Amazing, but one problem, the visual is at the front only, so it just cool gimmicky sound. Give me a 360 immersive screen as well then I will be impressed. Also unless you have tons of money I think it's really a synthetic virtual sound scape.i reckon 7.1 or Dolby digital is fine and improvement is only incremental for a large outlay

Surround Sound is something that is still magical to me. When you experience great surround sound you can't go back to stereo.

The main reason I bought JBL sound system is for Dolby Atmos for some games I play on Xbox Series X and unfortunately I had no idea PlayStation 5 doesn’t support Atmos though

Thanks Cal Den. Good Video!

yeah I have old Yamaha Surround system from like 2010 or something. Got for my PS3/ps4 so while playing games or watching Blu ray movies could get full theater sound like feel, Only thing is never got subwoofer for it, just had 5 old wooden speakers I hooked up and that was amazing. watching blu ray movies or even DVD with Dolby digital 5.1 or DTS 5.1 was so amazing. Like The Last of us 1 on ps4, hooked up with Toslink cable to my surround system.

The first movie that I can remember was prob 1989 batman with Michael Keaton in at theater then later getting DVD I think? Wanting my sound system. Was so happy and proud after getting my ps3 and using not just for gaming but watching HD movies with my surround system. I still have that old system but it doesn't even have HDMI, Everything has moved too that and even my PS5 does not have toslink option. Was so annoyed when Sony didn't put that on ps5. Cus both Ps3/ps4 and Pro had Toslink option.

Stop Making Us FooL ........... Human got 2 Ears .......Left & Right....Best channels system is Stereo....Hundred Speakers but only 2 Channels