Thread: VOD Netflix/Streaming Services
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Old 27-08-2014, 01:20   #718
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Re: Netflix/Streaming Services
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Originally Posted by zantarous View Post
It sounds better, DD+ is a much more efficient codec for streaming then DD and the bit rate can be a lot higher.
But that isn't what happens in reality; I think you will find that Netflix have reduced the audio bitrate (can't find the source I read for that ATM). That is, they've used the efficiency of the DD+ codec to reduce file size rather than improve audio quality.

And, as I said, the stream that Netflix use to feed the Apple TV could use an equivalent quality regular DD stream to the streams sent to DD+ devices. So just because the Apple TV gets DD rather than DD+, it does not follow that it doesn't sound as good.
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