It is increasingly difficult to find incentives to continue having a great time with Netflix, that streaming video company that launched itself before any other to the best technologies such as HDR10 and Dolby Vision, accompanied as it could not be otherwise by Dolby Atmos in order to provide its users with a round experience.
The relationship between Apple and Netflix has always been more out of necessity than pleasure, now the supplier ensures that the spatial audio of the AirPods is not even on its roadmap for the next few years, And the truth is that we can't blame them for anything either.
This information has been leaked from an internal department of Netflix to the well-known Apple-themed website called MacRumors. Let's face it… is anyone really surprised by this news? It is clear that the AirPods are a success, but in their market. The reality is that the niche of users of Netflix that take advantage of spatial audio must be quite limited, especially if we take into account that this technology is currently not compatible with the latest generation of the Apple TV that is available in the market.
So it's no surprise that Netflix has unofficially said that it is not at all interested in spatial audio on AirPods. However, it remains to be seen the true differences between spatial audio and other virtualizations such as 7.1 that Sony has been offering for many years in its PlayStation headphones, or the application of Dolby Atmos to certain wireless headphones, provided that the emitting device is compatible. , of course. If the most popular streaming video provider such as Netflix turns its back on Apple's spatial audio, and for logical reasons we are discarding other platforms such as YouTube, what will be left of this technology?
