Netflix has had a pretty rocky start to 2022, but they’ve continued to work nonstop to prevent massive user churn. A few days ago, the company announced that it would focus on creating better quality content. Series with longer seasons with more budget and higher technical quality. In recent days, Netflix has just announced the spatial audio support. Thanks to this novelty, users of the platform will be able to experience new sensations while viewing streaming series and movies.
Netflix joins spatial audio
Immersive audio has just arrived on Netflix from the hand of sennheiser. The company with the big red N joins the trend of improved stereo sound thanks to technology Sennheiser AMBEO 2-Channel Spatial Audio. With this new improvement, Netflix users will be able to enjoy a much more immersive experience when playing series or movies on the platform.
This new spatial audio is available for all streaming plans. It does not require a specific speaker configuration. In fact, Sennheiser claims that it is compatible with any stereo system. Therefore, this new feature is intended to software enhance the sound for those users who do not have a home theater. On Netflix’s own help page, the company recommends that owners of surround sound equipment continue to use their 5.1 or Dolby Atmos equipment, as the experience will continue to be superior in these cases.
How do I activate spatial audio on Netflix?
The only important requirement is to have a computer with a stereo sound system. Fulfilling that, we will only have to configure the streaming quality on High or Auto.
Netflix has placed special emphasis on the compatibility of this new function with the apple teams like Apple TV, iPhone, and iPad. You will be able to enjoy this feature on any Apple device running iOS 15.1 or higher. In addition, we will also be able to use the AirPods Pro, Airpods Max, third generation AirPods and Beats Fit Pro. The only requirement will be to activate the spatial audio configuration on the Apple device.
What titles support spatial audio?
It may seem that all Netflix content is now compatible with this technology, but it is not. Of course, first of all, you are going to need a spatial audio netflix.jpg, as we have explained in the previous section. In addition, any series or movie that displays the 5.1 or Atmos icon, will also not support the new spatial audiobut will require a 5.1 or Dolby Atmos compatible equipment to be able to generate surround audio.
A quick way to discover content that supports spatial audio is to do a search with the term ‘spatial audio’ directly on Netflix. At this time, the search engine returns just over 25 results, so it is to be expected that this feature will be extended little by little. The most interesting content you are going to see with this feature is the fourth season of stranger things. The rest of the seasons are not available in this feature at the moment.
