Prime Video cuts Dolby Vision, Atmos support from ad tier–and didn't tell subs

Re:Prime Video cuts Dolby Vision, Atmos support from ad tier... by juliusdavies on Monday February 12, 2024 @05:53PM (#39351666)

I recently streamed the Taylor Swift Eras concert movie through Apple TV (Dolby Atmos) and Amazon Prime (Dolby DDS I think?) to compare (through a Denon X6200W with a 9.1 speaker setup).

Yes, I paid the $19.89 two times. For science.

The audio quality with Atmos was substantially better.

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Re:Prime Video cuts Dolby Vision, Atmos support from ad tier... by randgoog on Monday February 12, 2024 @06:21PM (#39351965)

The confusing thing about Atmos is that there are basically two versions of it. There is the TrueHD version that you get on BluRay discs which is the highest, uncompressed quality. And then there is the streaming version which uses Dolby Digital Plus as a wrapper for a compressed version of the audio signal.

Atmos on its own really just tells you that there are height channels. Dolby has made all this stuff quite misleading and confusing to the average user.

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