dolby atmos blu-ray demo disc (aug 2018)

Dolby Atmos Blu-Ray Demo Disc (Aug 2018) Full And Loud

It lasts a little over five minutes, making it absolutely terrific demo room fodder, short of an Oh sh-- bit of profanity at the very beginning making it less family friendly.

While some of the movies are terrific (Gravity) others are more just things you suffer through (Jupiter Ascending).

To save you some time trying to find the best scenes to demo, Im gonna pinpoint each films marquee Atmos audio moment (Some spoilers ahead).

At 41 minutes in Wick visits a club and there is a ton of ambient club music and conversations and dinner plates and glasses clinking.

Minutes later at another private club, the music plays an important role in letting you know which level or area of the club youre in and the overhead speakers do a great job of filling in the room space and setting the difference moods as characters move through the differences spaces.

This scene is punctuated by blasts of silenced pistol fire as Wick moves through the club fighting and taking out bad guys and finishes with two loud blasts from Wicks unsilenced back-up weapon.

The mix does a great job of relaying the claustrophobia and closeness of the acoustic rooms and spaces, providing lots of reverberation and background mechanical, generator, and air circulation sounds that really help to place you inside District 13 with Katniss.

At 43 minutes, Katniss flies into District 8 and the jet hovers, stirring up lots of ground debris and then flies off overhead to disappear off in the sonic distance.

This sets up the films first big action sequence at 48 minutes as Katniss and her team walk around outside.

Creating the larger open space is the sounds of atmospheric and nature sounds swirling through the overhead speakers.

This relative calm is broken by air raid klaxons and the chatter of anti-aircraft machine gun fire.

Several explosions and debris blasts fill the room, as does the swirling audio from the attacking jets.

The scene ends with the crackling or roaring fire as it burns in the new rubble as fire is catching.

Where most times these speakers almost seem to be used as one channel to create space, or ambience, or just echo the music, here they are frequently used independently to bounce, swirl and shift the audio environment around the space of ceiling.

The music continually does a great job of matching the onscreen tension, swirling and spinning to mimic Stones on-screen disorientation.

Dolby Atmos Blu-Ray Demo Disc (Aug 2018) Full And Loud

When the order to abort the repair mission comes from Harris back in Houston, its mixed full and loud up to the ceiling speakers, moving around through all four of the channels.

This loud interruption gives urgency to the on-screen action.

Moments later as the shuttle is bombarded with Russian satellite debris, there is heavy music from the overheads and Kowalskis voice swirling around the room as he tries to locate Stone as she floats away off structure.

While Stone is floating away out into space, the speakers are filled with static that drifts in and out as she tries to orient herself and reach Houston.

In fact, there are literally only six scenes in the entire film that have any audio going to the ceiling speakers.

Even still, there is a lot of great ambience and sound mixing on the floor speakers and the best audio comes in the films climactic finale battle sequence, where Kyle and other soldiers set up observation on the roof, with dust and wind swirling around the room.

Only at the very end of the scene, as the camera pulls back from Mustafas body, do the ceiling speakers finally kick in, filling the overheads with the swirling sounds of desert winds.

In fact, sonically it is probably one of the best Dolby Atmos demo clips from a movie yet.