Audio and speakers
DTS:X
DTS's object-based immersive audio format, which renders sound objects to any speaker layout and does not require a fixed height speaker arrangement.
DTS:X is the object-based successor to DTS-HD Master Audio. Like Atmos it describes sounds as objects with position and maps them onto the speakers you have, but it accepts height speakers in a range of positions rather than prescribed angles.
A share of Ultra HD Blu-ray titles carry DTS:X instead of Atmos, so a receiver that decodes both plays every disc as intended. DTS:X also offers a dialogue control on supporting content that adjusts center channel level independently.
The bitstream sits on a lossless DTS-HD MA core, so older receivers still get 7.1. DTS:X Pro extends the renderer to as many as 32 speakers, and the companion Neural:X upmixer spreads legacy 5.1 and stereo across height channels.
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