Netflix and Sennheiser have introduced that Netflix customers can expertise Spatial Sound, because of Sennheiser’s AMBEO expertise, no matter their playback system, no matter the bodily speaker setup.
Clearly, the {hardware} continues to be related regarding the sound high quality. Nonetheless, 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 know right here. The concept is to “render” (compute) a sound sign much like how laptop graphics compute an artificial 3D picture. Older spatialization applied sciences relied on completely different recording and playback channels (entrance/again/left/proper and many others.). As an alternative, sound rendering can compute the ultimate sound sign your ears ought to obtain.
Solely a restricted variety of Netflix content material at the moment help Spatial Audio, however customers can search for “suitable titles” with the 5.1 or ATMOS icons. There’s a devoted assist web 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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