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Dolby Atmos playback from a pc sound card

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Hilton:
It has started... ;)

1st UHD Bluray drive for PC bundled with powerdvd. Requires Kaby Lake "S" and "H" CPUs, Windows 10 and HDCP 2.2 and HDMI 2. Out end of this month in Japan for around $200 US.

http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/first-writable-ultra-hd-blu-ray-drive/

NiToNi:
Wow!! 

<getting my popcorn out>

Hilton:
Still the problem of the whole hardware chain needing encryption (SGX in CPU) so still awhile away from getting close to an analogue solution or more than 8 channel LPCM over HDMI. But at least the first part of the PC playback chain for UHD discs is now in place.

Hendrik:
Atmos exists on ordinary Blu-rays as well, its not only UHD BD, so that seems tangential at best.

You can bitstream Atmos out over HDMI today, but I doubt PC-based Atmos playback is going to arrive anytime soon, or ever, especially because more then 8 channel PCM delivery is not quite common in the consumer space (or exists at all), so the motivation is just not there for Dolby or PowerDVD to offer this. Dolby would rather want to keep licensing their decoder into AVRs.

NiToNi:
Fair points but what about Atmos/DTS-X playback by MC including DSP processing of the audio (e.g. room correction) before being available as a bitstream out over HDMI only (to an Atmos/DTS-X receiver)?

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