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Kevin Smith’s Chasing Amy laserdisc commentary notoriously began with him exclaiming “Fuck DVD!”

I worked at a Blockbuster during the transition from VHS to DVD, and from my experienced point of view, consumers were eager to adopt it and it was a very happy for the benefits it offered over VHS: that it didn’t have to be rewound and that you could jump to any point, that the discs didn’t...

What Dave’s describing as “computational audio” is essentially how Atmos works in a theater. In theaters, each sound is unique from each other sound and can be placed in whichever speaker makes the most sense for that environment. It essentially creates a mix from scratch based on the parameters...

But even then - I don’t think they’d need a new format. While home Atmos is limited to 7.2.4, theatrical Atmos can support pretty much unlimited channels. So if anything, they might upgrade home Atmos to match the capabilities of its theatrical sibling - but I wouldn’t really consider that a new...

Fear-based audio, then? :D

I just wonder where else is there left to go - you’ve got full lossless audio quality and the ability to place sounds anywhere in any room with Atmos/DTS-X. I mean, what else is there?