Comment by philovivero

Someone else posted this down in the bottom of a comment thread somewhere, but I think it deserves to be at the top level: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Dw3aKbw5Wo

This is a smart, motivated audio engineer talking about Atmos. Quick summary: it's awful when it works perfectly, and it almost never works perfectly, in fact, it rarely works at all. Good luck trying to get Atmos working, and even if this was a completely open standard, would you really bother?