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You'll need an Xbox to enjoy Netflix's Dolby Atmos debut
According to Dolby's website, Vudu is the only streaming service with titles that support Atmos 3D sound technology. Now, Netflix has joined the Atmos movement with the launch of Bong Joon Ho's (Snowpiercer) Cannes Film Festival flick about a cute "superpig" called Okja. Atmos gives filmmakers the power to designate where sounds are coming from in three-dimensional space to make movies as realistic and immersive as possible. It can, for instance, make a plane in the movie sound like it's really passing overhead or an incoming train sound like it's zooming in from behind.
‘Snowpiercer’ director’s next film debuts on Netflix June 28th
A few years ago, Korean director Bong Joon Ho adapted a 70s French comic into film, creating the unexpectedly stunning and brutal Snowpiercer. The post-apocalypse movie barreled headlong into food scarcity, class warfare and child exploitation -- topical issues even in our more "civilized" age. Ho's next film, Okja, looks to pull a similar trick crashing outlandish characters into hot-button conflicts -- and it's coming to Netflix.
