Found this on Amazon:These Sony MDR-HW700DS Wireless Surround Headphones look interesting especially for BD-As with DTS-HD Master Audio anybody heard them/seen them? £399 in the UK.
Whoop-de-do, another Atmos clone destined for the dust bin of history. Hey Sony, how's that Betamax workin' out for ya?
AgreedSeems to me Sony has jumped the gun too soon in announcing their system before they have a way to deliver, although I did read a while back their new BD players will support 360 Reality streaming.
Looks like they want to jump Dolby (launch before Atmos music). I just can’t see them earning much with streaming short term, unless they think headphones 360 is the new killer format?
Both Sony and Dolby need to get the traditional surround user base to buy in. Sony don’t have any HiFi solution for us (maybe the new Sony BD players?). Dolby have Atmos in every new AVR designed for last 3+ years, and backward compatibility to TrueHD for all AVRs designed since Blu-ray was released.
Sony need to release a small low cost ‘Set Top Box‘ with a 360 Reality decoder, HDMI out to AVRs and WiFi/Ethernet connectivity to drag us into their world. Maybe they need to license DTS:X encoding for compatibility with current AVRs?
Yea, maybe they just want the new gen to stream 360 Reality to their headphones, single speakers and sound bars?
Every nail well and truly hit there Jon...Sony never stops. Whenever something new starts to blaze a trail, or makes any kind of inroads, they insist on splitting the market and coming out with their own proprietary spin. They have started and bailed on too many of these "spin"s to remember. (Beta, Memory Stick, Mavica, SACD, Minidisc, UMD, etc)
I am very leary about these surround audio 'formats' that require a special device for playback. First off, the source material can be noting more than a stereo audio track processed through software like Penteo or SPEC or Involve. If that's the case, and it's played back through a 'magic box' that shoots sound all around the room from a single location, how sure are we that it's in fact REAL surround? We're not. Will the piggies be in the back of the room? Will the footsteps run around the listening area. Will the harmony vocal be in a different location than the lead vocal?
AND............in order to participate, you have to give the source device and that company your email and credit info for the service, and a monthly subscription?
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