Hear your favorite Netflix shows and movies a whole new way.
And what, pray tell, is spatial audio? Well, according to Netflix’s own , it “helps to translate the cinematic experience of immersive audio to any stereo, so the work creators do to bring you into the story happens no matter what device you use to watch Netflix.” In other words, even if you don’t have a mind-blowing sound system with speakers placed at multiple points around your living room or home theater, spatial audio is supposed to do a decent job of replicating that experience.
Netflix launched their spatial audio yesterday. If you want to give it a try and see if you can hear a difference, they recommend you search the titles that offer the feature “by typing ‘spatial audio’ into the search bar and selecting a show or film that supports it in the search results.” When we did that here at ScreenCrush HQ, here’s what we got.