Why do all these 20-somethings have closed captions turned on?

Re:Why do all these 20-somethings have closed captions turne... by vel0city on Sunday September 18, 2022 @12:01AM (#32884312)

This is the idea of Atmos. They deliver the source with an absurd number of channels. Your local player knows your room and speaker arrangement (from setup tuning ahead of time) and remaps the stupid number of channels into the right playback based on the equipment available. Got 20 speakers all around the room? Cool. Have a 5.1 setup? No problem. Just have the stereo speakers on your TV? Supposedly, no problem.

Whether they actually achieved that depends a lot on your equipment and its tuning.

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Re:Why do all these 20-somethings have closed captions turne... by izacus on Sunday September 18, 2022 @06:55AM (#32886403)

Atmos doesn't have channels - it has played tracks with their 3d location encoded to the receiver can convert it into the correct channel setup.

It's fundamentally different from the "static" channel mixes we had before.

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