You may recall that Netflix brought Spatial Audio to certain titles a little while ago in a measure to retain audiences. Well, that trend has just kicked off, since one of their direct competitors, Disney+ Hotstar has teamed up with Dolby Laboratories to bring Dolby Atmos immersive audio for its users on the Disney+ Hotstar app.
While the streaming platform had earlier launched Dolby Vision support, it has now added Dolby Atmos playback to all compatible TVs, AVRs, soundbars, Android smartphones and iOS devices. This will offer a multidimensional, spatial sound experience to immerse you further into all your weekend binges and content of choice, be it movies, tv shows, matches or races.
Dolby launched Vision in 2020, and since then the crisp details and high quality of Dolby Vision HDR have enabled the users of Disney+ Hotstar to catch every emotion in extreme detail. It was only the next logical step for them to add the multidimensional, spatial sound experience of Dolby Atmos to Disney+ Hotstar. This will provide the complete package and incredible immersion in all aspects.
This feature is available to all users on the platform. A selection of titles will be streaming with both Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos including Home Shanti, Rudra: The Edge of Darkness, November Story, Human, Grahan, The Great Indian Murder, Aarya, Shoorveer, Masoom, Ghar Waapsi, Out of Love, Special Ops 1.5, Vikram, Kaathuvaakula Rendu Kaadhal and A Thursday. All new titles from Hotstar Special will also include Dolby support.
Both features are designed to automatically adapt to your compatible device, no matter what you are watching. The content in Dolby on the Disney+ Hotstar app can be easily located thanks to the ‘Dolby badge’ on the title listing page. So dive in!