Arcam Announces Certification of 4 Imax-Enhanced AV Receivers Due This Year
Arcam announced a line of Imax-Enhanced AV receivers due this quarter. It didn’t give pricing for the four receivers certified to play back Imax remastered 4K HDR content with DTS:X audio. DTS and Imax announced plans for the certification and…
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licensing program in September (see 1809040055) and told us in New York last month (see 1811140042) roughly 30 titles with Imax Enhanced digitally remastered 4K HDR content will begin rolling out from studio launch partners Sony Pictures and Paramount in January. Content will be available on 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray discs and via 4K streaming services. DTS had to convert Imax cinema sound to a format for DTS:X home systems, John McDaniel, vice president-business development, ecosystems, at DTS parent Xperi, told us. DTS mapped the Imax speaker configuration to the home environment so content could play back on 5.1, 7.1 or 11.4-channel speaker setups. Imax has a center-screen height channel for science and documentary titles, and studios began leveraging that channel for immersive mixes, he said. DTS mixers inserted that speaker "into our algorithm as a persistent center-screen height object that can be rendered into any consumer environment,” he said, since the height speakers in an Imax theater are discrete, not object based. “We are leveraging the object-based codec to place a virtual speaker that is rendered into the consumer’s environment,” he said. The sound is converted into an immersive mix with low-frequency effects on the post-production side, and it’s completed on the Imax Enhanced audio products, McDaniel said. The result is a mix compatible with standard DTS:X AVRs. Playing the Imax Enhanced mix through Enhanced-certified components “will complete the conversion process” on bass management and other components to take the experience up another level, he said.