Watch and listen for about a minute to get a nice sense of what's possible with Dolby Atmos. Inside, the cavernous echoes and technological sounds of the ship's security systems make great use of the height plane. At around 1:30:45 the camera goes through a waterfall and enters the ship. Need a shorter demo? Another cool scene in Dolby Atmos is when our heroes have entered the bounty hunter's ship searching for Optimus Prime and Cade's daughter Tessa. The scene is punctuated by a rocket launch from the bounty hunter which finally takes down the Autobot.

Start at 15:30 and let it run for about 4 minutes while helicopters fly overhead, explosions are detonated and drones buzz around. Start at 2:24:00 and let it run for about 10 minutes for an extended and immersive audiovisual extravaganza.Īnother good scene for Atmos is earlier in the film when the Autobot Ratchet is being hunted. Compared to 7.1 surround, the Atmos experience in this scene is just a bit more enveloping, with a clear sense of height - there's a bit more 'there' there. This leads to sounds of gunfire, metal crunching and explosions from all around you, permeated by an electromagnetic vortex that sucks boats, cars, autobots and more up into the bowels of the ship. While transformers, humans, decepticons and dino-bots battle below, up in the sky an alien ship uses powerful electromagnets to suck up anything with ferrous metals, searching for the Seed (which is basically a powerful alien weapon). One scene that will fill your home theater from top to bottom, front to back and side to side is the final battle among men and machines. You can check out our review of the disc here. While the plot may be as riddled with holes as the film itself is riddled with bullets, and the sound may get a bit cacaphonous at times, the movie does make for an impressive demo both visually and sonically, particularly in Dolby Atmos. So while we're waiting with bated breath for 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' to debut next month on Blu-ray in Dolby Atmos surround, and for next year's Diamond Luxe version of 'Gravity' to do the same, here's what's available now to put a Dolby Atmos-compatible home theater system through its paces.Īvailable in both 2D and 3D versions, the latest installment in the 'Transformers' franchise is nothing if not bombastic.

And while I have a test disc with a few Dolby Atmos trailers and a music video, I've been hankering for some real content to put the system through its paces. I'm in the process of testing a full Dolby Atmos system including a Marantz receiver and set of KEF R series speakers (ten of them, counting the subwoofer). Unfortunately there still isn't much content. With Dolby Atmos now available in a number of home theater receivers, speakers and preamps, it's possible to bring home the immersive surround sound format that was previously only available in select premium movie theaters.

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