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Auro-3D?

Steve Bruzonsky

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I have got all my Kaleidescape gear pretty much after taking my dedicated theater down and the renovation/upgrading is still in process many months later, due to integrator delays, Covid-19 delays, and my changing and upgrading so much from the original plan.

I know that here in the U.S. not many blu ray or 4k blu ray discs offer Auro-3D native soundtracks, same when it comes to movie theaters in the U.S. I understand in Europe there are a lot more blu ray or 4k blu ray Auro-3D native soundtracks.

Here in the U.S., I understand I have the option in the KScape settings to output PCM instead of bitrate, and then I can use my Trinnov Altitude 32 SSP to upsample the base 5.1 or 7.1 Dolby or DTS layer to Atmos 3-D (that Dolby has removed the restriction of using other upmixers - am I correct in this regard?). But I don't think I have ever seen any native Auro-3D tracks on any blu ray or 4k blu ray on KScape - so I assume KScape does not offer Auro-3D soundtracks even if they are available for a particular movie. And I assume there are licensing restrictions and substantial costs involved with the idea of even offering Auro-3D soundtracks making it impractical.

Brett or anyone, any info you can provide on this is appreciated. Thanks.
 
I have a few Auro 3-D encoded Blu-rays (some audio titles and Red Tails German version); I can say that the Kaleidescape has no problem importing and playing back these discs, so certainly not a technical limitation on their side. It would be cool if they would add Pure Audio (Pure Audio) as a studio, then we could download some really high-res music in surround.
 
Nice to know KScape can play the Auro-3D track on a blu ray disc if you have one of their disc players - but KScape doesn't have a 4k disc player, and again, my understanding is the KScape store titles do not have Auro-3D tracks on those few discs, at least in the U.S., which have Auro-3D tracks. Correct me if I am mistaken.

As for hi res music (without video), I do all this via ROON and hard-wired ethernet, the very best sound quality. Now don't get me wrong, video concerts via HDMI still sound very nice, just not as nice to my audiophile ear & brain. So I have no interest in blu ray audio via ROON if video isn't involved. And that includes all the 2L (Norway) blu ray audio discs which I have ripped for playing via ROON (or when my theater is finally renovated and remodeled playing their Dolby Atmos or Auro-3D tracts in my theater, although via HDMI).
 
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