Atmos in Games

Much more interesting than Atmos for Bluray and UHD Bluray (which is of course also important) is support for Atmos in Games.

So far MS has been alarmingly quiet about this, there are just hints and comments here and there, but this could be a big deal for gamers.

Dolby Atmos and DTS:X make a lot of sense for games, because objects in games are already rendered in 3D, so having sound follow the graphical objects makes sense and seems natural.

Sadly, today game devs have to "flatten" the sound back down to 2D (5.1 or 7.1) and also assign sounds to channels instead of letting the AVR work with the positional audio.

I'm hoping MS will allow this to happen soon, on XBONE, for supported games like SW Battlefront, Battlefield One, Mass Effect Andromeda and Overwatch...and hopefully many others as well!

:)

 

Xbox One X 4k Blu Ray Won't Play Dolby Atmos

My Xbox One X will not play Dolby Atmos when using a Blu Ray disk, but Dolby Atmos games and the Dolby Atmos app work fine.

I recently purchased "Coco" on 4k Blu Ray and it will pass a Dolby Atmos signal to my Onkyo TX-RZ900. My receiver is Atmos capable, and works fine with Atmos games such as Gears of War or the Dolby Atmos app.

I have tried changing every setting I think of and clear the blu ray cache, and still nothing.

 

Dolby atmos issues

Yes its now broken with the update, for watching netflix with a real atmos setup 5.1.2.

The receiver thinks its atmos but its a 5.1 or even a 2.0 stream hidden in a atmos package.

blu ray works fine atmos is atmos and 5.1 is upscaled by the receiver to dolby surround with use or al your atmos speakers so it must be.