AppleTV: how are you liking bought films with Atmos?

[Ample Energy]

Hello,

I have recently installed some speakers on the ceiling for Atmos and I’m liking it. So far I’ve tested with downloaded movies with TrueHD + Atmos and that is awesome and very easy, but I want to do it “right” and just buy a couple of movies every once in a while. There are of course multiple options for that. If I want the best audio quality guaranteed I’ll buy Blu-ray Discs and rip them with my pc and play that with a media player. However, I am very lazy and would rather buy digital media and just stream those. And it looks like AppleTV offers the highest quality of all streaming services.

That’s why I’m wondering how you all are experiencing the sound quality of films you’ve bought on AppleTV. It looks like the bitrate is about 786 kb/s while a blu-ray generally offers about 1509 to over 3500, right? That seems like such a huge difference that it must be noticeable but I’m hoping to hear that’s all in my head.

Any thoughts and opinions? If you have experience with buying films with Atmos tracks on AppleTV I’d also like to hear what kind of speaker setup you have. I mean, I don’t have the most expensive sound system in the world but if you use just a soundbar then your experiences will probably not translate well to my speakers.

Thanks for your time!

Edit: I don’t have an AppleTV device yet so I can’t just try it out and compare it to a downloaded film at this moment.

 

[staticV3]

Hi @Ample Energy! Welcome to ASR.

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Though I have yet to A/B DD+ vs TrueHD, as usual I'd expect the impact of lossy compression to be dwarfed by that of your loudspeakers, room treatment, and room correction.

 

[Ample Energy]

Hi @Ample Energy! Welcome to ASR.

This may be useful to you:
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Though I have yet to A/B DD+ vs TrueHD, as usual I'd expect the impact of lossy compression to be dwarfed by that of your loudspeakers, room treatment, and room correction.

Hi there, thank you!

And thanks, that confirms what I thought: blu-ray is >3500 kb/s and AppleTV an average of 786 kb/s.

I’ll download a few films with DD+ Atmos and TrueHD Atmos and see if I can hear the difference.

I’m also going to do room treatment but I have so much more homework to do before I can start that…

Still curious to hear about the experience of other people!

 

[DavidMcRoy]

I generally find myself too distracted by video to lock in on small audio differences.