Dolby Atmos
Sign in to savesurround sound technology for home cinema and cinema; typically having a 5.1 or 7.1 setup with additional ceiling speakers or ceiling-directed speakers for home cinemas
Key facts
- Website
- dolby .com /technologies /dolby-atmos
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Named after
- Dolby
- Developer
- Dolby
- Manufacturer
- Dolby
- Official website
- www.dolby.com/technologies/dolby-atmos
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- discoverer or inventor
- Dolby
- used by
- broadcaster
- inception
- 2012-00-00
- Commons category
- Dolby Atmos
- different from
- Dolby Digital
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Encyclopedic overview
Dolby Atmos is a surround sound technology developed by Dolby Laboratories. It expands on existing surround sound systems by adding height channels as well as free-moving sound objects, interpreted as three-dimensional objects with neither horizontal nor vertical limitations. Following the release of Atmos for the cinema market, a variety of consumer technologies have been released under the Atmos brand. The initial cinema Atmos systems used in-ceiling speakers, then upward-firing speakers (e.g. for soundbars) were introduced as an alternative for consumer products. Atmos is also used on some devices that do not have a height channel, such as headphones, televisions, mobile phones, and tablets.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dolby Atmos” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.