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Just so you know, I have two Dolby Atmos downloads. . .

. . . but I can't play either one (yet!). I can play Dolby Atmos using Dolby Atmos blu-rays in my blu-ray player and streaming via my Apple TV 4K device. But for Dolby Atmos downloads, there doesn't seem to be any straightforward, simple, cheap (!) way to play them right now. I have a big discussion going on right now on the Computer Style site, and I couldn't believe all the "gotchas" involved in playing back what I thought was a straightforward 24/48 album in Dolby Atmos I'd downloaded from the Audite site. For one thing, I would need to add an Nvidia Shield (a little hardware box, similar to the Apple TV 4K device) to my system (no problem - an extra $200). And for another thing, the format of the Atmos files downloaded from the Audite site is different from that of the Atmos files downloaded from the 2L or other sites.

And here's where things get even more complicated: the download from Audite unzipped to a bunch of WAV files (for the different tracks) - but it seems that they're special WAV files which won't play back like other WAV files (because they have all this Atmos meta information in them) and need to be passed through "Dolby Renderer" software ($300) and possibly another piece of software (? - I think it's software) from Dolby Labs, the Dolby Encoder ($400/year). And it seems that I don't want .wav files. I'm told what I REALLY need is .mkv files. I think the process will need to be WAY simplified if Dolby Atmos downloads are going to take off, even at a niche audiophile level.

Kal - if you're still on this thread, what do you think?

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