Install Theme

Your web-browser is very outdated, and as such, this website may not display properly. Please consider upgrading to a modern, faster and more secure browser. Click here to do so.

Dolby Laboratories

Postings and information from Dolby Laboratories and other authorities on sound and cinema. Writers include Andi Fisher and Thom Brekke part of Dolby's social media team with guest posters from time to time.
Jul 10 '12

A Superhero for Sound

Comic-Con begins in two days, so naturally I, as well as several others on our Dolby team, have superheroes and sci-fi on the brain. Heck, I’ve had them on my mind for some time, what with the release of a whole slew of comic book movies in the past few years, many of them released with a Dolby Surround 7.1 soundtrack.

That got Andi, Sean, and me thinking about how we could illustrate Dolby Surround 7.1’s relationship with superheroes. The characters of the comics are, after all, larger than life, and Dolby Surround 7.1 provides a great soundtrack to accompany the breathtaking visuals their films often include. Seven surround zones, working together with the help of a subwoofer to keep the movie moving, it almost parallels a film like The Avengers (which was in Dolby Surround 7.1, incidentally).

So Sean got to work creating our Dolby Surround 7.1 superhero. Always discrete, never upscaled, with the power of all the superheroes presented in Dolby Surround 7.1 before him, we think he’ll join the ranks of the elite sonic superheroes in no time.

Can you identify all the superheroes who combined to make our Dolby Surround 7.1 superhero? There are elements of each in this image – and why not add the superhero you’d most like to see presented in Dolby Surround 7.1 or Dolby Atmos, the .1 to the picture!

- Thom Brekke is Dolby’s Community Manager and the guy you are likely to hear from on Facebook and Twitter.  He is also a computer musician, Oregon Ducks football fan, and dance floor freak.