Dolby Atmos for Dramatic Cinema Sound Experiences

Dolby® Atmos™ introduces powerful new listening experiences for the movies, with sound that truly envelops you and allows you to hear the whole picture. With Dolby Atmos, filmmakers can now precisely position and move sounds anywhere in a theatre—even overhead—to heighten the realism and impact of every scene.

Dolby Atmos Benefits

Delivers a powerful and dramatic new cinema-sound listening experience

Allows sounds to move around the theatre to create dynamic effects

Reproduces a natural and lifelike audio experience that perfectly matches the story

Adds overhead speakers for the most realistic effects you’ve ever heard

Reflects the artist’s original intent, regardless of theatre setup

Employs up to 64 speakers to heighten the realism and impact of every scene

	Dolby Atmos Movies Experience a natural and lifelike audio experience in the theatre. Find a Dolby Atmos theatre near you, and check your local listings for Dolby Atmos movie titles currently playing at these theatres.
	Dolby Atmos for Content Creators Find out more about the Dolby Atmos end-to-end audio platform.
	Dolby Atmos for Distributors Simplify distribution by eliminating multiple format inventories.
	Dolby Atmos for Exhibitors Deliver a compelling experience that audiences can get only in a theatre. The Dolby Atmos Cinema Processor CP850 brings Dolby Atmos audio playback capabilities to your digital cinema.

Dolby Atmos Accolades

“Dolby Atmos provides the completely immersive sound experience that filmmakers like myself have long dreamed about.”—Peter Jackson, Film Director

“Dolby Atmos is fantastic from a sound quality position. We can now hear full-range surround speakers, meaning that when we pan from the front to surround, the sound does not change in quality. The overhead speakers give us the opportunity to place the theater patron really in the location.”—John Neill, Park Road Post Production

“Given the choice between a theater with Dolby Atmos and one without, we'll always choose the one with. . . .”—Ben Drawbaugh, Engadget

“The use of Dolby Atmos technology has so far been seen . . . as a boon for theaters trying to differentiate themselves from the traditional home theater.”—Clint DeBoer, Audioholics

Dolby Atmos Movies

Dolby Atmos preserves the director's intent in each scene—what you hear in the theatre accurately reflects the filmmaker’s vision—so you can be sure that your experience of a movie is the best one possible.

Learn more about Dolby Atmos for audiences.

Dolby Atmos: A Whole New Reason to Go to the Movies

Dolby Atmos is the most significant development in cinema audio since surround sound, taking a unique layered approach to sound design.

Dolby Atmos Technical Information

Creates clearer, more accurately positioned cinema sound; uses object-oriented mixing to layer independent sound elements over channel-based audio content

Captures all the director’s intent as descriptive metadata to provide customized playback for each theatre

Automatically generates optimum soundtracks for theatres with 5.1- and 7.1-channel setups

Delivers a rich, realistic sound experience through support for up to 128 simultaneous and lossless audio elements in a mix

Scales easily to any size theatre, with up to 64 independent speaker outputs

For anyone who enjoys great cinema storytelling, Dolby Atmos is an end-to-end audio platform that vastly expands the artistic palette available during content creation, simplifies distribution, and enables dramatic cinema-sound experiences.