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Good news for all you audiophiles. To further enhance your movie going experience Transformers DOTM will feature Dolby 7.1 Surround Sound (in select theaters). Hollywood Reporter is reporting that Transformers DOTM along with a handful of other films slated for release this summer will receive the Dolby 7.1 Surround Sound treatment.

The format is aimed at improving the spatial dimension of soundtracks and enhancing audio definition.

Enabling content creators to mix in a discrete 7.1 format, Dolby Surround 7.1 provides four surround zones to better orchestrate audio channels in a movie theater environment. The four surround zones incorporate the traditional left surround and right surround with new back surround left and back surround right zones.

In total, the Dolby Surround 7.1 format comprises eight channels of audio with a channel layout of left, center, right, low-frequency effects, left surround, right surround, back surround left and back surround right.

Click here to read up on all Dolby 7.1 Surround Sound has to offer.

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7.1 isn't that big of an improvement (unless your a crazed home theatre nut). DTS is more than enough.

MINDVVIPE wrote:7.1 isn't that big of an improvement (unless your a crazed home theatre nut). DTS is more than enough.

I have to agree. If you look at the typical ranges of sound and presentation format of the whole set-up and then compare that to to the average range of human hearing, too much attention goes into something that can only be picked up by dogs, bats and aquatic mammals. The big downside is that you'll get folks like me who have a range slightly broader than average (due to a slip during an ear operation) and 7.1 theater surround means that there's a better than average chance that I'll spend half the movie in excruciating pain.
This is going to be just like the 3D situation. It's not a necessary improvement but they're going to screw with it anyways just because they can. I can't tolerate the sound tweaking and my older brother can't do the 3D because of his eyes so I guess we are going to have to find a low-tech theater out in the middle of BFE that is playing DotM (if that's even possible) just so we can catch it on the big screen. Thanks for "fixing" something that wasn't broke to begin with Hollywood. F'n greedy jerks!

So... What does that even mean?

Red 50 wrote:So... What does that even mean?

It means while your in the theatre, you won't notice anything different.
What you're SUPPOSED to notice, is a more 'realistic' and gradual/fluent range of sound as on screen sounds travel from the front screen, towards the back speakers.

MINDVVIPE wrote:

Red 50 wrote:So... What does that even mean?

It means while your in the theatre, you won't notice anything different.
What you're SUPPOSED to notice, is a more 'realistic' and gradual/fluent range of sound as on screen sounds travel from the front screen, towards the back speakers.

Ooo...

Thanks.

Red 50 wrote:

MINDVVIPE wrote:

Red 50 wrote:So... What does that even mean?

It means while your in the theatre, you won't notice anything different.
What you're SUPPOSED to notice, is a more 'realistic' and gradual/fluent range of sound as on screen sounds travel from the front screen, towards the back speakers.

Ooo...

Thanks.

Its basically the addition of 2 speakers on either side of the room (configured to pick up sound at that middle area at a unique time than the others) midway between front left and right, and rear left and right speakers.

I figured it meant earsplittingly loud ass explosions and screeching metal that absolutely drives me bonkers!

I hate going to some movies and the sound is just F&@*!'N ballistic to the point where my eyes water.

monstergrotusque wrote:I figured it meant earsplittingly loud ass explosions and screeching metal that absolutely drives me bonkers!

I hate going to some movies and the sound is just F&@*!'N ballistic to the point where my eyes water.

Really? damn. I'm lucky if i get a full on loud theatre, at metrotown or at coquitlam. Maybe I've just been to too many metal shows and listened to too much loud music. The last movie I saw that was loud enough and just awesome was the scene from Terminator 3, the road scene where the evil terminator chick drove the huge truck. Expendables was (sick) pretty loud too, but coulda been louder, hah. Saw that in some San Fran theatre.

We have this in my theaters. I was really wishing DOTM would be in IMax. Missed out on ROTF Imax because one was not around. We just got one a few months back (with the largest screen in the U.S.A,) and so of course DOTM wont be in Imax.

MINDVVIPE wrote:

monstergrotusque wrote:I figured it meant earsplittingly loud ass explosions and screeching metal that absolutely drives me bonkers!

I hate going to some movies and the sound is just F&@*!'N ballistic to the point where my eyes water.

Really? damn. I'm lucky if i get a full on loud theatre, at metrotown or at coquitlam. Maybe I've just been to too many metal shows and listened to too much loud music. The last movie I saw that was loud enough and just awesome was the scene from Terminator 3, the road scene where the evil terminator chick drove the huge truck. Expendables was (sick) pretty loud too, but coulda been louder, hah. Saw that in some San Fran theatre.

Movies and metal shows are too different things. It's very rare that shows can ever get too loud for me. Motothead really did me in at the Commodore though. Ringing ears for a day and a bit but i was right beside the speakers in the pit.
That scene in Terminator though was that annoying type loud for me. Maybe there's just a pitch or something that sends me into pissed off mode that movies seem to generate over music.

That new Predator movie had a couple scenes in it that drove me nuts. THe worst movie for brutal high pitched loudness was the scene in the last aliens movie with Sygourney Weaver where the alien was getting sucked out into space through this pinhole in the hull and was SCREAMING for like 5 minutes. I was losin my **** it was driving me so nuts.

monstergrotusque wrote:

MINDVVIPE wrote:

monstergrotusque wrote:I figured it meant earsplittingly loud ass explosions and screeching metal that absolutely drives me bonkers!

I hate going to some movies and the sound is just F&@*!'N ballistic to the point where my eyes water.

Really? damn. I'm lucky if i get a full on loud theatre, at metrotown or at coquitlam. Maybe I've just been to too many metal shows and listened to too much loud music. The last movie I saw that was loud enough and just awesome was the scene from Terminator 3, the road scene where the evil terminator chick drove the huge truck. Expendables was (sick) pretty loud too, but coulda been louder, hah. Saw that in some San Fran theatre.

Movies and metal shows are too different things. It's very rare that shows can ever get too loud for me. Motothead really did me in at the Commodore though. Ringing ears for a day and a bit but i was right beside the speakers in the pit.
That scene in Terminator though was that annoying type loud for me. Maybe there's just a pitch or something that sends me into pissed off mode that movies seem to generate over music.

That new Predator movie had a couple scenes in it that drove me nuts. THe worst movie for brutal high pitched loudness was the scene in the last aliens movie with Sygourney Weaver where the alien was getting sucked out into space through this pinhole in the hull and was SCREAMING for like 5 minutes. I was losin my **** it was driving me so nuts.

Crazy, sorry to hear, man (no pun intended). I sorta understand what you mean with the high pitched dealy. It doesn't bother that much thankfully Right, Alien Ressurection,that was a long time before it got sucked out, haha. Motorhead musta been pretty sick live, I think the last time I had long time ear ringing where it lasted till the next day was at a Dubstep show at Fortune Sound club, but they have, I think 25000 worth of audio equipment or something, soo...