EntertainmentStreamingNetflix subscribers are getting a huge audio upgradeSpatial audio is coming to hundreds more titles, but you’ll need to be a top-tier subscriber to hear itWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
EntertainmentStreamingNetflix subscribers are getting a huge audio upgradeSpatial audio is coming to hundreds more titles, but you’ll need to be a top-tier subscriber to hear itWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
Spatial audio is coming to hundreds more titles, but you’ll need to be a top-tier subscriber to hear it
When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
(Image credit: Netflix)
(Image credit: Netflix)
We’ve got good news forNetflixPremium subscribers: it’s rolling out thespatial audio techit started testing with season four ofStranger Things. According toNetflixyou can now listen in spatial audio on over 700 of its most popular titles including Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery. There’ll be a little spatial audio icon in the programme details so you can see whether a particular title offers it.
More perks, but only if you’re Premium
The spatial audio support is only available to Premium subscribers, and the same applies to antlers welcome upgrade: Netflix is upping the number of supported devices that you can download shows to for offline viewing. The previous limit was four for Premium subscribers, and that’s going up to six.
It’s nice to be reporting a positive Netflix change, for Premium customers anyway: much of the news around Netflix right now is over theincoming Netflix password sharing crackdown, which will mean paying more to watch Netflix in more than one household and which won’t let you watch from abroad if you’re away for more than seven days. We don’t yet know what adding extra people to your account will cost, but we do know that if you don’t pay, they’ll simply be blocked.
I know that Netflix sees its password crackdown as a way to raise revenues, but given that in its Premium guise it’s already one of the most expensive streaming services around it’s quite possible that the move won’t raise the money Netflix hopes it will – and if it makes a mess of it and upsets its legitimate users as a result, it could even drive people away.
Netflix rose to prominence because for a long time it wasn’t just thebest streaming service; it was pretty much the only one. But now many rivals are just as good, and in many cases an awful lot cheaper too.
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