Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos are exclusive to Xbox consoles for two years due to an agreement between Microsoft and Dolby

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Thx to Jarod McChicken for the link.

Avec Dolby Vision et Dolby Atmos, découvrez une expérience sans précédent sur Xbox - Xbox Wire en Francais

Les Xbox Series X|S sont compatibles Dolby Atmos depuis leur sortie et le Dolby Vision arrivera sur ces consoles au cours de l’année 2021, les deux technologies resteront exclusives à l’écosystème Xbox pendant deux ans. Mais qu’est-ce que cela signifie réellement pour les joueuses et les joueurs...

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[Dashful]

Incoming HDR10+ exclusivity coming to Switch Pro.

 

[Noctis]

There it is

 

[Kolx]

MS taking timed exclusivity to a whole new level.

 

[brokenswiftie]

Weird that Dolby made a display standard exclusive
you'd think they'd want it on everything for adoption

 

[dariruzaka]

everything is timed exclusive

 

[TheRealBigRich]

Any games even take advantage of these features

 

[Stacey]

Wow.

Timed exclusive audio, what a world we live in. smh

 

[RivalGT]

Whats the point of this, was anyone else trying to secure exclusive rights?

 

[Jeffram]

This is stupid for both companies.

 

[Dashful]

Weird that Dolby made a display standard exclusive
you'd think they'd want it on everything for adoption

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And that MS of all companies going for a standard. Any web coders that have been around for the last 20 years can attest that it's very unlike them.

 

[Ushay]

Hopefully we get some decent games using the technology, will be interesting to see how it works.

 

[StrappingYoungLance]

Gross.

 

[antispin]

I wonder what came first: Tempest or this exclusivity?

 

[elenarie]

In tomorrow's news:

Epic makes timed exclusivity exclusive on their platform for the next 3 years.

 

[RedHeat]

I was gonna say Sony wouldn't implement regardless in the first place but then I remembered PS5's 3D audio doesn't support speakers (yet).

 

[Red]

Dolby Atmos could be great for games, and it hurts to see platform exclusivity.

 

[Tomba]

This is stupid for both companies.

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why? sony is trying to bluray their tempest engine with the ps5. it makes sense

 

[TheGhost]

Seems like a waste of money, how many people are picking up a console just because it has Dolby atmos.

unless Sony was going for the same deal and they didn't want to look like they had less features than ps5 which then makes business sense.

 

[Zebesian-X]

Well... at least we know it will be coming eventually? lol.

Timed exclusives are wack. People are gonna come in here and say "that's just good business" but explaining why a company does something doesn't absolve it from criticism.

(yes, the same goes for Sony and Nintendo when they pull some dumb shit)

 

[Euphoria]

Well that's certainly something lol.

The console wars is about to take a turn. Now instead of arguing over frame rates and resolutions we can argue how this game sounds better than that game.

 

[Uzuzu]

wonder if its because sony's spatial sound is a competitor to atmos

 

[henhowc]

Should have saved it for e3

 

[tobes231]

Well hopefully that only lasts two years, because Dolby Vision looks beautiful (I think Frostbite games are the only real example so far anyway). Atmos is hit and miss.

 

[cw_sasuke]

Dont believe it, Phil would never do this xD

Should have saved it for e3

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lol

 

[Deleted member 18400]

Seems weird for Dolby to limit the number of people who would want to buy their new products.....but hey MS must have paid them well.

 

[Trojan]

This is stupid for both companies.

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This was my first thought. How is this in anyone's best interest, including Microsoft and Dolby?

 

[Jeffram]

I wonder what came first: Tempest or this exclusivity?

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It makes no sense as a response to tempest. Why would Xbox need to lock in exclusivity?

 

[Benny Del Toro]

So is this considered anti-consumer? 😛

 

[Toriko]

Phil is above timed exclusives.

 

[supercommodore]

Bizarre lol

 

[Lannisters1798]

Audio exclusivity really? That's really unfortunate.

 

[Zera Bloodwinter]

Platform exclusivity in any form is a disease that needs to be eradicated.

 

[ShapeGSX]

I mean, Sony isn't likely to adopt Atmos since they have their own proprietary stuff. Sort-of. And I have my doubts that they'd use DolbyVision, too.

 

[Akai]

Exclusivity stupidity knows no bounds.

 

[QBizM]

Maybe this will be wrapped up in something Game Pass related. Like playing games or watching media content with this Dolby Audio/Visual plug in via the XBox platform.

 

[Bucéfalo]

Moneyhatting Dolby Vision, damn.

 

[Tora]

I mean, PS5 wouldn't have used Atmos anyway, so I don't see the harm here seeing as no other platform (save for PC) would use it

Vision, yeah that's weird and Idk why they'd want to limit it

 

[Euphoria]

So is this considered anti-consumer? 😛

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Yes and No. Depends who you ask. :)

 

[UltraInstinct]

How silly is it to have exclusivity over Dolby Vision and Atmos.

 

[tapedeck]

Dumb.

 

[BabyDontHurtMe]

Didn't know they could make technologies platform exclusive though I suppose the same is being done by Sony with their 3D audio tech. However, that is hardware accelerated and not software.

 

[Deleted member 9584]

Sony is handing them VRR exclusivity too, so might as well add that to the list.

 

[Androidsleeps]

Anticonsumerism modCheck

 

[SirMossyBloke]

Exclusive tech support is fucking dreadful. Luckily I have PC for this stuff, but I'd be pretty upset if I didn't.

 

[Joo]

why? sony is trying to bluray their tempest engine with the ps5. it makes sense

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Yeah Sony wouldn't use Atmos anyway, but there's also Dolby Vision and exclusive agreement on it is quite weird. Content for DV is increasing all the time, but there still isn't too much of it. Would just make sense for Dolby to have their HDR format on every possible device.

 

[Jeffram]

why? sony is trying to bluray their tempest engine with the ps5. it makes sense

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That's not a comparison here. Sony isn't selling a competing format, they have one that's license free for developers of playstation games.

Why would xbox need to secure exclusivity if that's the case?

 

[kiguel182]

This really doesn't benefit anyone

 

[Lightjolly]

Well have to hand it to them, compared to last generation, Microsoft are waddling their big money dick around a lot more now

 

[Madmackem]

I mean, Sony isn't likely to adopt Atmos since they have their own proprietary stuff. Sort-of. And I have my doubts that they'd use DolbyVision, too.

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They'd deffo use vision, doesn't it ship on most Sony 4k movie discs?.