What’s Dolby Atmos FlexConnect and the way will it rework your private home cinema expertise?

Dolby has been doing its bit to revolutionise the house cinema sound expertise because it launched encompass sound within the residence in 1982. Now it has unveiled its newest innovation in immersive audio, Dolby Atmos FlexConnect.

Constructing on the spatial audio format of Dolby Atmos, which makes use of object-based sound to position results throughout a 360-degree soundscape, Dolby Atmos FlexConnect will assist residence cinema customers to construct on that have in as handy approach as attainable.

However what’s it, how does it work and how will you get it? Preserve studying for all the main points.

What’s Dolby Atmos FlexConnect?

Dolby Atmos FlexConnect is a brand new know-how that can pair a TV’s sound system with appropriate wi-fi audio system that may be positioned across the room, wherever fits the room finest. The FlexConnect system will then intelligently optimise the sound to the room structure and particular person speaker setup, making it rather more versatile than conventional encompass sound setups.

Which means that irrespective of the dimensions of your room, whether or not you may have sure furnishings that you just want your audio system to work round, or wish to think about issues like energy outlet areas and even simply what appears finest – there is no such thing as a «optimum» location that they must be positioned at with a view to sound their finest.

How does it work?

Dolby’s acoustic mapping know-how leverages microphones inside a appropriate TV to know the place each FlexConnect speaker is within the room. After a fast calibration course of, audio will then be intelligently and dynamically balanced between the TV and the audio system within the room, bolstering the Atmos expertise and inserting sounds extra precisely round a 360-degree soundscape.

What do I have to get it?

You will want a appropriate TV and audio system – however aside from that, Dolby Atmos FlexConnect is as versatile because it sounds. You may place only one speaker, or a number of, across the room and the system will work with no matter you may have.

Even higher, it can repeatedly adapt if you wish to develop your system and add extra audio system to enhance your system sooner or later.

Which TVs are appropriate?

Dolby Atmos FlexConnect is first launching with TCL’s Dolby Atmos-enabled TVs in 2024, powered by MediaTek’s Pentonic chipset. I’d anticipate extra TV producers to comply with go well with after the tech debuts at IFA 2023. We’ll carry you extra on the know-how as we have now it, together with some first impressions on the way it all sounds in observe.