After the launch of a cheaper subscription with advertising on November 3, 2022, Netflix has just launched a brand new feature that will allow you to improve the quality of your viewing. And the good news is that the price does not change!
Things continue to move at Netflix, which is suffering the biggest loss of paying subscribers in its history. Last summer, the American platform deployed the aspatial audio on some of his series, including Stranger Things for its fourth season. To offer a global sound capable of resonating at 360° on a selection of original programs, the company uses Ambeo 2-Channel Spatial Audio technology from Sennheise. No additional equipment is required to benefit from it, although the firm recommends the use of headphones to make the most of the various sound effects. At the start of the year, spatial audio is spreading more in the Netflix catalog, which is increasing the number of devices on which content can be downloaded. Only condition: subscribe to the most expensive subscription.
700 tracks in spatial audio for Premium subscribers
“Today we are happy to announce new features available at no additional cost with the Premium plan“, announced Netflix in a press release a few days ago. In concrete terms, spatial audio is now available to those who pay the most expensive subscription on more than 700 of the most popular programs on the platform, including The Watcher, Wednesday or Glass Onion: A story at loggerheads. The 17.99/month subscription, which includes four simultaneous screens and access to‘Ultra High Definition (UHD) 4K, allows you to win the bet, at no additional cost, but for the Essential and Standard offers, the number of titles becomes limited. To see which films and series support this feature, just type “spatial audio” in the search bar to find content already posted online.
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Spatial audio, the streaming revolution?
In the rest of its press release, Netflix announces that Premium subscribers will now be able to download content on more devices. From four today, this figure increases to six, allowing the download on a telephone as well as a tablet for the four members of a household. It is therefore an ever more intense and immersive experience that the company offers to its customers. To better capture the differences between standard audio and spatial audio, Netflix has prepared a short video for the public (see below), and we must admit that it is quite impressive. According to the streaming giant, there is no doubt: this innovative sound experience will revolutionize streaming. Other platforms such as Disney+ or Prime Video, two serious competitors of N rouge, also intend to soon integrate spatial audio into their catalog.
Article written in collaboration with 6Médias
