Surround playback
Press STANDARD, MOVIE, or GAME to switch to surround playback. Select your preferred sound mode according to the content viewed or listened to.
NOTE
- Press INFO to see whether surround playback is selected.
- The sound bar uses the following technologies to achieve a full surround sound experience.
- Dolby Atmos: An object-based surround technology. Going beyond traditional channel-based approaches, it controls content audio as an assembly of many objects (a combination of audio information and information about sound location changes). This allows for more precise sound control and helps to reproduce sound that is more faithful to the intentions of content creators by taking advantage of the characteristics of the sound bar.
Switching the sound characteristics setting of MOVIE
The sound characteristics can be partially changed for when the sound mode is set to MOVIE.
Press and hold MOVIE on the remote control for at least five seconds to switch between Setting 1 and Setting 2.
Setting 1: Ideal sound characteristics designed by Yamaha
Setting 2: Sound characteristics for the Dolby Atmos decoder
Default setting: Setting 1
When the setting is switched, the indicators on the front of the sound bar show the selected setting as follows:
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