Guys, u can check out this discussion. For me Dolby Atmos is still gimmick (yes there are some exceptions). But most of the time you get poor experience though out the movies. So I would not attach such weight to it (for now)
I no longer think this is true. Maybe two years ago. And maybe just a little true now, but the rate of new content is starting to expand.
And for me, it isn't even about movies. Atmos music is an almost life changing experience for me. Now, there's even less music available, but the rate it's coming out is increasing steadily. Tidal has Atmos music and it's not got a ton of stuff, but they have full albums from Kraftwerk, Steven Wilson, Alanis Morissette, Glass Animals, London Elektricity, Meek Mill, Post Malone, John Williams and the London Philharmonic, Norah Jones, and a bunch of other artists I've never heard of. Then some singles from artists like Sir Elton John, Rush, Blondie, Lyrnyrd Skynyrd, The Allman Brothers, Guns N Roses, and those are just off the top of my head. There's more, especially pop, rap, and classical that I don't even know or recognize. Not that I don't like those genres, I'm pretty eclectic, but I don't know a lot of current artists in any genre.
Anyways, sales and adoption drive content availability. And it's already slowly increasing in rate of availability. Netflix is investing in it too and I'm sure the amount of people who consume it is being tracked and the more people who have it, the more they're gonna invest in it.
The quality of content is getting better too. It is new and a completely new way of mixing, object based vs track based. So there's a learning curve and engineers have to figure out not just how to make the mixes, but how to utilize the technology for maximum effect. I think that's starting to happen, but if pessimistic people like you keep going around shitting on it, it will happen slower and slower or this truly innovative technology might just die out because people aren't adopting it or even trying/testing it out because people are telling them it isn't worth it.
Most of us buy a receiver for it to last at least 2 to 5 years as well. So we hedge our bets that in that 2 to 5 years content and quality will increase.
And you're also on a forum pretty much geared towards enthusiasts and a lot are early adopters because the tech excited us.
So your attitude isn't highly appreciated, neither is it constructive.
Yeah and no ALLM
No, that doesn't seem to be 'activated' either. A firmware update that added nothing in particular lol.
Yeah, it's almost as if they said that those wouldn't be available til April. And likely it was focused on bug fixes or other under-the-covers improvements. Or even code to prepare for those other updates and let them "soak".
Soaking btw is a software industry term for putting code out into the wild that is intended for a future feature, but could impact other functionality, in order to do large scale stability testing prior to the release of a new feature. It's usually very low risk but a best practice nonetheless, especially when you're dealing with hardware or appliances and a large scale test is impractical because you typically don't have thousands of units to test with.
I used to work for a company that made network security appliances. I was in QA at the time and was basically in charge of our lab. We made 3 models. We had 3 of each in our lab. That's kind of pretty common. I imagine a company like Yamaha probably has more than that, but I couldn't imagine them having more than maybe 10 of each.
They don't want to introduce bugs or anything really really unstable that might break working functionality for thousand of users. And comprehensive updates like they're promising and people are demanding are extremely risky. So this is a very good way to mitigate that risk.
I can't say for sure that's what they're doing here, but I bet most or all of the code for those features is even in the update just deactivated with what we call "feature flags". And the "comprehensive" update will probably just contain any necessary bug fixes and code to turn those features on.
You can see that behavior in a lot of MMOs too.