Netflix has two bulletins for these customers who subscribe to its highest-end Premium tier (seeking to distract from its controversial crackdown on password sharing). The corporate is dramatically increasing its catalog of spatial audio content material, whereas additionally eradicating one of many limitations on obtain gadgets.

Spatial audio

Netflix first launched spatial audio assist in July final yr, with a small assortment of flicks and TV reveals from its catalog of originals. With as we speak’s announcement, nevertheless, spatial audio is now out there on over 700 TV reveals and flicks.

The Verge highlights a number of of the notable additions: The Watcher, Wednesday, and Glass Onion: A Knives Out Thriller, and some extra coming quickly: You, Your Place or Mine, Luther: The Fallen Solar, and Tour de France. Spatial audio will even be added to “new titles as they’re launched.” You’ll find the total record of TV reveals and flicks out there in spatial audio in your Netflix app simply by looking for “spatial audio.”

Netflix’s implementation of spatial audio works throughout Apple gadgets and AirPods, utilizing Apple’s personal spatial audio function. Appropriate gadgets embody:

• iPhone 7 and later utilizing iOS 15.1 or above
• iPad Air third era and later utilizing iPadOS 15.1 or above
• iPad mini fifth era and later utilizing iPadOS 15.1 or above
• iPad Professional third era and later utilizing iPadOS 15.1 or above
• Apple TV 4K and later utilizing tvOS 15 or above

And appropriate Apple headphones:

• Appropriate Apple headphones
  • AirPods third era
  • AirPods Professional
  • AirPods Max
  • Beats Match Professional

Netflix, nevertheless, restricts spatial audio to its highest-end Premium tier, which prices $19.99 per 30 days. The corporate additionally has a change in retailer for subscribers which may make that Premium tier a bit extra attractive…

Downloading to extra gadgets

For Premium subscribers, Netflix has additionally elevated the variety of gadgets to which you’ll be able to obtain content material for offline viewing. Beforehand, the corporate solely allowed you to obtain content material to 4 gadgets, however with as we speak’s change, that quantity has elevated to 6.

“With individuals extra related than ever by a number of gadgets, we’ve realized by analysis that members would really like the choice to obtain Netflix collection and movies to observe offline on extra gadgets, notably as they journey and change between gadgets,” the corporate defined.

These updates to Netflix come because the firm is testing a controversial method to restrict password sharing. This transformation is more likely to be a irritating one for a lot of customers, so Netflix might want to discover different methods to make its service as attractive as attainable to stop subscribers from merely canceling.

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