Dolby Atmos For Home Dolby Atmos for Home was named the Grand Winner in the entertainment category of this year’s Best of Whats New Awards from Popular Science Magazine. Each year, the editors of Popular Science review thousands of products in search of the top 100 tech innovations of the year; breakthrough products and technologies that represent a significant leap in their categories. Along with the other winners, Dolby has been awarded inclusion in the much-anticipated December issue of Popular Science, the most widely read issue of the year. This issue is available on newsstands today and a summary of our Grand Award win can also be viewed at bestofwhatsnew.popsci/tags/entertainment. You may also be excited to hear that Warner Bros. Home Entertainment has announced that the Diamond Luxe edition of Gravity will be released featuring a Dolby Atmos soundtrack on Feb. 10, 2015. Gravity director Alfonso Cuarón has said that watching the film in Dolby Atmos is as important as seeing it in 3D and has explained, “When I started mixing my films, I was always asking for possibilities in the mixing room that were not achievable. Now finally with Dolby Atmos it’s a dream come true where you can really exploit the possibilities of depth and separation as never before.” Here’s a link (vimeo/76365489) to a video interview where he talks about how he used “sound to tell a story – even though there is no sound in space.
Posted on: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 19:40:04 +0000