Excellent! Will give it a go in a few weeks. ♫♪♪♫

Disney+ currently has IMAX Enhanced movies with a few Marvel selections, but as you mentioned in the article, they’re non-DTS:X. Looking forward to it, and thanks for digging into this.

Yeah, the Sony A80L is also IMAX Enhanced certified, but it was unable to pass along a DTS:X stream from the BRAVIA Core app when I tested it. But things could be different with Disney+. I just added an update from DTS to the bottom of the article. Apparently once Disney+ enables the DTS:X feature, when you select an IMAX Enhanced movie from the service, you’ll get a confirmation message to enable DTS:X sound on your device. Once you’ve confirmed, all compatible content will deliver the soundtrack in DTS:X. So if you see that pop-up message on May 15th, you should be good to go.

Mmmm…will have to do some additional testing to see what my receiver is passing, but according to Crutchfield, my hardware *should* pass it based on specs for both. I’ll have to see if I can track down a sample as I’m not currently “core” user. As you say, time will tell, but it seems odd that they’d go to such lengths on something that very few people could take advantage of. Crutchfield’s info could be dated as well.

https://www.crutchfield.com/S-3JFbojActb0/p_15877XA9G/Sony-MASTER-Series-XBR-77A9G.html

(Details tab / scroll down to IMAX Enhanced Technology).

What streaming device will you use? I’m pretty sure your set only supports legacy DTS decoding (not DTS:X) so it’s possible the Disney+ app on your TV may not pass that DTS:X stream to your receiver. I tested the 2023 OLED (A80L) and was not able to get that set to pass DTS:X from BRAVIA Core’s IMAX Enhanced titles to a compatible soundbar. The only way I was able to get a DTS:X stream to the sound bar was by bypassing the TV entirely and plugging a Blu-ray player directly into the bar. Do you have any credits on BRAVIA Core (now called “Sony Picture Core”) that you can use to test? I believe Sony Pictures Core does have a few IMAX Enhanced titles with DTS:X soundtracks that you can test with.

It’s possible that the Disney+ app may behave differently from Sony Picture Core, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it won’t pass DTS:X from your set either. I guess we’ll know for sure on May 15th. Good luck!

I looked up the specs on my receiver/TV (Denon AVR-X6500H/Sony XBR-77A9G) and they’re both fully compatible (both have latest firmware/software).

I’m looking forward to the Queen concert, and may pull up one of the Marvel movies just to hear how it sounds, and to see if it’s that much different, doing a sequence the day before and the same one after. If you have the Blu-ray of the concert, you can also do an A/B comparison.

I wonder if they’re going to do any of the Star Wars movies?

Happy TGIF!