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Dolby Atmos treats sounds as movable objects
The mix stores a position for each sound rather than assigning it a speaker Atmos, introduced in 2012 with the film Brave, carries metadata describing where a sound should be and how it should move. The cinema's processor works out which of its many speakers should play it. Overhead channels let rain or aircraft pass above the audience. It sits in Mondo's movies & tv collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.
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