Netflix now streaming with 'high-quality audio', because your ears matter, tooBitrates will now adapt depending on your bandwidth on 5.1 surround and Atmos-enabled content.
Netflix today in a blog post announced that it's revamped its audio streaming for all content that use either 5.1 surround sound or Dolby Atmos. It's calling it "high-quality audio," which is a pretty unassuming name given the big deal it's making about all this. And to be clear, it is a bit of a big deal.
It all comes down, as it so often does, to compression. Just like video, audio also gets compressed when it's fired off through that series of tubes we call the internet. And that means you don't the the same "studio-quality" sound at home as you do when the folks making the shows are perfecting the audio.
So Netflix wanted to work on that.
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The end result is twofold. First is that they're streaming better audio, full stop. That's important unto itself. The second part of the equation, though, is that they're able to adapt the audio stream depending on ho...
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Netflix now streaming with 'high-quality audio', because your ears matter, too
