What is the ideal sound metadata OTT platform offer on Dolby ATMOS

[karteek23]

Hi,
I have a small doubt regarding the Dolby ATMOS metadata we recieve from major OTT partner channels.

Is it 5ch Dolby digital plus with metadata of 2ch Atmos??

Or 5ch Dolby digital plus with metadata of 4ch ATMOS??

or irrespective of it we receive 5.1Dolby or 7.1Dolby ???


Note: I know Dolby Atmos is dependent on the subscription we choose.


This helps people to choose a AVR (7ch or 9ch) who consume more ott rather than going high end channel receivers.

 

[eswarasai]

OTT platforms support upto 5.1 channels with Atmos (object based metadata) on top of the 5.1 channel configuration. None of them have 7.1 channel content.

Has been answered in the below post already:

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