Over 300 Dolby Atmos titles have been announced. As you can see in the photo above, Atmos has been, or will be soon, installed in over 1,200 cinemas around the world. The first stop on our tour was a power point presentation regarding current Atmos benchmarks. It's the perfect, imperfect place to demo the real-world potential for new speakers. It's a very good, well-equipped room, but one that mirrors what it's like for many home theatre enthusiasts. That is to say, this home theatre is often loaded up with the best of the best home cinema gear, but isn't some acoustically perfect environment shielded from the rest of the universe.

Dolby's home theatre is a smallish sized room (12' by 15', give or take) with black-out curtains hiding glass windows, angled walls betraying an optimum rectangular design, and a flat 9' ceiling with numerous air conditioning vents. An odd sensation given that, aside from the mixing and presentation amenities listed above, it's an otherwise standard office building. In addition to those facilities, Burbank One houses a 'home theatre'. Burbank One is also home to the near-field mixing stage where many Atmos-enabled Blu-rays are re-recorded for the home by our good friend, Tim Hoogenakker. Across the highway from Warner Bros, Dolby's Burbank Lab, Burbank One, is home to Southern California's first Atmos mixing stage this is where Dolby brought filmmakers and studio executives to demonstrate the technology for theatrical use. Klipsch and Dolby recently invited a few home theatre journalists to demo their newly announced Reference Premiere Dolby Atmos speakers.

Reelwood demo disc