'The Hobbit' set to be released in Dolby Atmos
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October 25, 2012, Thursday
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MIDDLE-EARTH will sound more realistic in "The Hobbit."
Dolby Laboratories Inc and director Peter Jackson's Park Road Post Production announced yesterday that "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" will be mixed and released in Dolby Atmos, the company's new sound system that features two extra arrays of overhead speakers and the ability to direct sounds to individual speakers inside movie theaters.
"Jackson felt it was going to make a big difference in how he tells stories," said Stuart Bowling, Dolby's senior technical marketing manager. "He doesn't want people to just go and observe his movies. He wants you to feel like you're part of the experience of the stories that he's trying to tell on the screen and allow you to be part of Middle-earth."
The director of the Oscar-winning "The Lord of the Rings" films adapted J.R.R. Tolkien's tale of Bilbo Baggins, set in the fictional realm of Middle-earth 60 years before "The Lord of the Rings." Besides the standard 2D format, the series will be released in high-frame-rate 3D, IMAX and other 3D formats.
Bowling said Dolby's goal is to have the Atmos platform installed in 80 to 100 theaters in time for the film scheduled to premiere on December 14.
"Dolby Atmos is fantastic from a sound quality position," said John Neill, head of sound at Park Road Post Production. "We can now hear full range surround speakers, meaning that when we pan from the front to surround, the sound does not change in quality. The overhead speakers give us the opportunity to place the theater patron really in the location."
Dolby Laboratories Inc and director Peter Jackson's Park Road Post Production announced yesterday that "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" will be mixed and released in Dolby Atmos, the company's new sound system that features two extra arrays of overhead speakers and the ability to direct sounds to individual speakers inside movie theaters.
"Jackson felt it was going to make a big difference in how he tells stories," said Stuart Bowling, Dolby's senior technical marketing manager. "He doesn't want people to just go and observe his movies. He wants you to feel like you're part of the experience of the stories that he's trying to tell on the screen and allow you to be part of Middle-earth."
The director of the Oscar-winning "The Lord of the Rings" films adapted J.R.R. Tolkien's tale of Bilbo Baggins, set in the fictional realm of Middle-earth 60 years before "The Lord of the Rings." Besides the standard 2D format, the series will be released in high-frame-rate 3D, IMAX and other 3D formats.
Bowling said Dolby's goal is to have the Atmos platform installed in 80 to 100 theaters in time for the film scheduled to premiere on December 14.
"Dolby Atmos is fantastic from a sound quality position," said John Neill, head of sound at Park Road Post Production. "We can now hear full range surround speakers, meaning that when we pan from the front to surround, the sound does not change in quality. The overhead speakers give us the opportunity to place the theater patron really in the location."
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