Which Blu-ray Discs Have Dolby Atmos?
By Chris Boylan
Updated: September 2, 2022
It's no secret that we're fans of
Dolby Atmos here at Big Picture Big Sound. When I
first heard Atmos at Dolby's Labs in San Francisco, I was impressed. Earlier this year, Ian White also gave the
home version of Dolby Atmos a listen and left equally optimistic about the future of home theater sound. The object-based sound encoding/decoding format has been used successfully in theaters to provide an intensely immersive surround sound experience on several hundred movies and TV shows, including blockbusters like
Gravity,
Godzilla,
Edge of Tomorrow,
Guardians of the Galaxy and many more.
And now Dolby Atmos is available for home use, via a selection of
Dolby Atmos-enabled receivers, preamps, soundbars and speakers. It has also been included in loads of Blu-ray Discs and 4K UHD Blu-ray Discs, courtesy of extensions to the existing Dolby TrueHD codec. We've heard it will also be coming to streaming services such as VUDU and possibly Amazon Prime Video and Netflix via the Dolby Digital Plus codec.
[update: all of this happened; Dolby Atmos is also available on Disney+, HBOMax and AppleTV+.]
We've also gone on record
calling the studios to task for being slow to release new titles in the Dolby Atmos format for home use. We're not sure what, exactly, they're waiting for. Physical media sales have been on the decline for the past few years and something like Dolby Atmos can stem the tide and get people excited about buying movies again. Also, Dolby Atmos is backwardly compatible. If you play an Atmos-enabled Blu-ray Disc through a non-Atmos receiver, you get the standard Dolby TrueHD track. It even works with existing Blu-ray players so there's no need to run out to buy a new player.
The first batch of Dolby Atmos-enabled Blu-rays probably won't win a lot of Oscars, but they provide great home theater demo material.
We decided to put together a master list of Blu-ray titles that are available now on Blu-ray Disc. We'll keep the list updated as more titles are announced. We've included links to Amazon so you can find out more or order these for your own collection (purchases made through these links may earn a commission for this web site).
If we've missed anything, let us know in the comments so we can add it to the list. Also, please verify any title on this list has Dolby Atmos before you buy it. The data we have access to isn't flawless. If you notice a title linked does NOT include Dolby Atmos, please let us know in the comments and we will update the list as needed.
Also, you can search for Dolby Atmos discs on blu-raystats.com - a great resource for technical details on many types of physical video media.
List last updated September 2, 2022.
List of Dolby Atmos Titles on Blu-ray Disc, UHD Blu-ray Disc (4K) and Blu-ray 3D Disc (3D) in the U.S.:
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