Netflix and Sennheiser Introduce Spatial Audio For All

Netflix and Sennheiser have announced that Netflix customers can expertise Spatial Sound, due to Sennheiser’s AMBEO expertise, no matter their playback gadget, regardless of the bodily speaker setup.

Obviously, the {hardware} remains to be related regarding the sound high quality. However, which means any speaker or headphones {hardware} can output ‘some’ spatialization. AMBEO is a big umbrella for Sennheiser’s spatialization and sound rendering.

Sound Rendering is a related idea to grasp right here. The concept is to “render” (compute) a sound sign much like how pc graphics compute an artificial 3D picture. Older spatialization applied sciences relied on totally different recording and playback channels (entrance/again/left/proper and so forth.). Instead, sound rendering can compute the ultimate sound sign your ears ought to obtain.

Only a restricted variety of Netflix content material presently help Spatial Audio, however customers can search for “compatible titles” with the 5.1 or ATMOS icons. There’s a dedicated help page.

There’s no query that spatial sound can considerably enhance the general film expertise, which is a welcome addition. In time, we hope each new title will help it, together with up to date/remastered variations of older content material.

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