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  1. Josh Dial

    The Fundamentals of Atmos

    If I had to guess, I think this is definitely the case. However, Disney's releases have been lackluster for quite some time now. At least as far bad as at least Thor Ragnarok in 2017 and Cars 3 also in 2017. That was the year I first noticed having give what I call the "Disney Bump". If I had...
  2. Josh Dial

    The Fundamentals of Atmos

    Total agreement. One thing to add is that I've actually been pleasantly surprised by the DTS NEO: X and Dolby Surround upmixers. I've been re-watching every episode of every Star Trek series. I'm up to season 5 of Voyager. DS9 and Voyage have both sounded decent! Like nothing mind-blowing or...
  3. Josh Dial

    The Fundamentals of Atmos

    Very interesting video. Thanks, Carlo! It doesn't change my overall position on Atmos: broadly speaking for UHD there are passive and active Atmos tracks. Those are my own labels. This is my "conspiracy". Not all Atmos tracks are created equal. In passive mixes, the engineer simply and only...
  4. Josh Dial

    The Fundamentals of Atmos

    In addition to what John wrote, I would add that many studios (though it can sometimes be more granular than studios) don't even use Atmos correctly. I think far too many releases "cheat" in the way they have sounds effects seem like they are discrete objects when in fact they are not discrete...
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