DTS:X spotted in the wild!

As we’ve mentioned once or twice, DTS:X is as close to a failed format as you could imagine, utterly dominated by Dolby Atmos as a next-gen object-based sound format capable of delivering height as well as surround information. DTS:X has been adopted by no major streaming service in Australia and only tiny examples globally, so that some electronics manufacturers have already stopped supporting DTS:X as a format on their products — why pay the licence fee when there’s no chance of a consumer receiving any? DTS:X has been relegated to certain Sony Pictures releases on optical discs, hardly a sector where one can hope for growth. But the brand’s owner, Xperi Corporation, is also the owner of the IMAX brand. So some years back it switched to promoting an ‘IMAX…

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