Article: The Dark Side of the Moon in Dolby TrueHD Atmos

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I picked up the Super Deluxe boxed set from Down in the Valley here in Minneapolis, solely for the Blu-ray containing the lossless TrueHD Atmos version. 

 

This is a frustrating situation. I bought some of the deluxe Beatles sets just to get the BluRay but I can't keep shelling out hundreds of $$ to get what I want (the BluRay) that should cost tens of $$. Is the market for these discs so limited that there is no money to be made selling just the BluRay, or is it a calculated move to force those of us who want only the disc to pay the premium for the box set? Since the DSOTM box sold out it seems they could make a few $$ selling just the BluRay. 

 

In any case... I would love to have the DSOTM BluRay and would pay a reasonable amount, but not $280 for the box just to get it.

 

 

 

 

 

[bbosler]

Acoustic Sounds has limited stock for $300 + tax as of 3-26-23 at 3:00 central

 

https://store.acousticsounds.com/d/175539/Pink_Floyd-The_Dark_Side_Of_the_Moon_50th_Anniversary_Box__Live_at_Wembley_Empire_Pool_London_1974-Multi-Format_Box_Sets

 

yes, of course, I bought one

 

I am beginning to think this is a disease 

[bbosler]

My order from Acoustic sounds for $299 + tax was cancelled with no explanation. I assume they ran out

 

I just looked on Amazon and they have it for $254 coming from Amazon UK with free shipping so I went for it

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Guthrie uses every channel in my 7.1.4 system, at the right time. 

 

I know it may be too complex an answer for here, but can you point me to an explanation/discussion about how this is all encoded?

 

I know TrueHD is capable of using objects with metadata and your processor figures out the decoding to place the object in space, but I don't understand how the channels works. When you say it uses all my 7.1.4  channels , does that mean it is hard encoded with  12 channels, or that your processor decodes it and uses however many channels are available? So if you had 7.1.6 or 9.1.6 would it use all 14 or 16, or would it still be 12 channels because it is encoded with 12 channels?

 

you see a question on various forums where somebody asks something like "how many channels does Apple TV Atmos stream" or "how many channels is Netflix Atmos" so in the same vein, how many channels are encoded in this TrueHD mix? .. and I can't find a good answer. 

 

thanks

 

[bbosler]

I have the DSOTM disc on the way... I'll see what I get from my Trinnov but I suspect the same as I get from this Abbey Road BluRay. I suspect that the processor is "creating" the extra channels since I'm thinking it wasn't encoded with 9.1.6 ?? So regarding the question  how many channels are actually encoded.. your Dolby decoder is probably the source of truth on this one. 

 

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it is here 7.1.4