Dolby's latest
cinema sound technology is Dolby Atmos ®, introduced in 2012.
When George Lucas used the technology for the blockbuster Star Wars,
cinema sound changed forever.
Since then, Dolby and the legendary space - opera saga have shared a long history as their own Rebel Alliance of sorts — one that's continuously innovated to push
cinema sound and vision to new heights.
Dolby Atmos for the home brings the ultimate
cinema sound experience to your home theater to create powerful, moving audio that flows around you.
Unlike a theme park ride which often directs your attention through sound cues placed in a 360 degree fashion around a room (think of the Hall of Presidents in Walt Disney World),
cinema sound must contend with a two - dimensional screen on which audiences must stayed focused, even with 3 - D presentations where your eyes remain fixed on a general axis, where any movement outside that axis might reveal the images to be cardboard cutouts — a phenomenon all too familiar to me.
Transcendence director Wally Pfister discusses the importance of
cinema sound and how Dolby Atmos helped him achieve his vision for the film.
Dolby Atmos evolves the premier
cinema sound experience for immersive VR audio playback over headphones or home theater systems to create powerful, moving audio that seems to flow all around the viewer.
The nature of
cinema sound often goes unappreciated, mainly because it's almost never explained.
Dolby Atmos has revolutionized
cinema sound.
In part two of our conversation, fellow sound designers Randy Thom and Chris Foster pose questions to Walter, we discuss the state of
cinema sound before and after Apocalypse Now, why film school can be a good idea, and how you can underline a character's emotional state with carefully chosen sound effects.
Steinway Lyngdorf the collaboration between Steinway and Peter Lyngdorf have released the LS Sound System as the ultimate home
cinema sound system.
With its seven discrete output stages each providing 185 watts of clean power, the AVR - S910W creates stunning
cinema sound and detailed music playback.
Here's some more info about
the cinema sound and how it works.
With soundbars, however, you don't get the fully immersive audio bubble that a full Atmos setup with rear channels will offer - this isn't a 30 - something
cinema sound setup, after all.
Disney Pixar's animated blockbuster Brave was chosen to launch Dolby's latest
cinema sound format, Dolby Atmos.
The Philips Fidelio B5 is an impressive bit of kit, and it's the perfect soundbar for someone who appreciates good
cinema sound but has no interest in tearing up their living room to install a 5.1 surround sound system to use only every now and then.
Datasat makes the AP20
cinema sound processor, used in theatres worldwide, and has just launched a new high - end home cinema processor based on it, called the RS20i (yours for a cool # 16k).
With a wide range of colours and shade finishes available through the Meridian Select service Meridian's DSP loudspeakers bring unique opportunities for optimization of driver / amplifier / enclosure systems, while giving listeners unprecedented control over music and
cinema sound playback.
Again, it claims to offer Dolby Atmos support for immersive
cinema sound.
Ever fancied getting in on the whole «
cinema sound in your home» experience, but been put off by the mess of cables that inevitably comes with dotting a load of speakers around your living room?
However, your brand new Apple TV 4K set - top box doesn't yet support the popular Dolby Atmos surround sound technology, so don't even bother trying it on your home
cinema sound system.
The theater will feature stadium - style seating in every auditorium, along with state - of - the - art projection and digital sound, including Sony Dynamic Digital Sound - one of the most advanced
cinema sound systems in the marketplace today.
Not exact matches
The first level has three luxuriously appointed bedrooms with open - plan bathrooms, a study area and surround -
sound private
cinema.
Cinemas nationwide offer movie times especially for parents and babies, often with discounted ticket prices, lowered
sound, and a handy change table.
The
sound will be digitally coded using a system developed by Dolby Laboratories of San Francisco for the
cinema industry.
Haven't read whole thread but hoping no one is making the argument that this is like shifting to color or
sound, both of those posed clear impediments to a kind of versimilutude
cinema, but for ninety odd years we have accepted the sufficiency of the format without question.
Though boasting the creativity of a television episode, the short is presented in full Dolby 5.1
sound (with all the language options of the feature film, minus DVS) and
cinema - ready 16:9 animation.
The Artist plays around with the distinction between silent and
sound cinema, resulting in the superficial entertainment value of a high concept film school joke.
Rather than being ideal for people who know a bit about French
cinema and want to know more, it's best suited to people who know a considerable amount about French
cinema (and culture) of the early
sound era and want to delve deeper.
A Quiet Place John Krasinski's thrillingly intelligent post-apocalyptic horror movie, in which he stars with Emily Blunt as a couple trying to protect their family from monsters who hunt by
sound, is walking - on - eggshells
cinema of a very high order.
A kind of low - level trickster god of indie
cinema himself, Waititi lets his film go a little crazy: He's outfitted it with garish colors and costumes and set designs, some not - entirely - perfect special effects, and a synthesized Mark Mothersbaugh score that
sounds like it was lifted from an early period Jean - Claude Van Damme flick.
Is it an emulated effect, or will home
cinema owners be able to hear these ambient effects in Dolby Digital 5.1
sound?
Apparently it's already been and gone from British
cinemas, but I don't remember noticing it was there; a pity, because it
sounds quite engaging, the kind of lighthearted caper film which used to come from these shores on a frequent basis in days gone by.
He is perhaps best known for delivering some of
cinema's most enduring and iconic moments in The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), West Side Story (1961), and The
Sound of Music (1965).
Even the simplest melody can
sound marvelous when played by a virtuoso, and in
cinema, it's amazing what well - trained, naturally gifted professional actors can do to with even basic material.
Just the fact that the comment «Technical aspects take over filmmaking and I always prefer real flesh and blood actors and original locations over computergenerated stuff» might
sound conservative shows that Hollywood
cinema is in a bad way right now.
When Joel McCrea says «I believe good dialogue is the cheapest insurance a producer can buy,» it
sounds like something Sturges taught all of
cinema.
The film's staging and editing is comparable to something on the Charlie Kaufman / Spike Jonze / Michel Gondry side of
cinema, with multiple locations and characters converging on a single space as Ingrid keeps interpreting and reinterpreting
sounds — nearly always imagining that she's overhearing the secret sex lives of her husband and neighbors.
This Week: Kevin begins the show with a Fat Guys
Sound - Off about overzealous political causes that devour their allies and how it relates to 80s
cinema.
For Annihilation is ultimately a cerebral work whose visual beauty, strangeness, heady
sound design and sophisticated ideas prove Garland once more to be one of genre
cinema's finest living practitioners.
To say Unknown is perfectly adequate
cinema - fare
sounds like a negative appraisal of the Liam Neeson (Taken, Schindler's List) vehicle, but it isn't meant to.
There are images destined to be as indelible as the two suns of Tatooine — one comes with a silence so stark it sears into the mind, proof of how
sound, and the lack of it, impacts
cinema — and there are heroes and villains that will fuel the imagination of fans for years to come.
Eventually I enrolled in a
sound and image course where I had the opportunity to experience filmmaking with a great teacher — award winning video artist Joan Braderman — and a whole new world opened up for me — not the world of
cinema fantasy but the world of documentary.
It all
sounds quite compelling to me, but has got ferociously bad reviews, and disappeared from
cinemas quicker than the cops disappeared when they heard there was a special offer on at the donut place.
The early 1970s to the late 1980s was a unique moment in Australian
cinema history; a time when censorship was reigned in and home - grown production flourished, resulting in a flurry of exploitation films — sex comedies, horror movies and action thrillers — that pushed buttons and boundaries, trampled over taste and decency, but also offered artistry within their escapism, giving audiences sights and
sounds unlike anything they had seen in Australia before.
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(the
sound of a punch landing in 60's Bollywood films) of Indian
cinema and its superlative culinary delights.
Every ten years since 1952, the world - renowned film magazine Sight &
Sound has polled a wide international selection of film critics and directors on what they consider to be the ten greatest works of
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When working for Owe Svensson from 1997 - 2001 (
sound designer for Ingmar Bergman, Bo Widerberg and Andrei Tarkovski), Ekstrand got his passion for the art of
sound and music in
cinema.
Every ten years since 1952, the world - renowned film magazine Sight &
Sound has polled a wide international selection of film critics and directors on what they consider to be the ten greatest works of
cinema ever made, and then compiled...