Hi Everyone,
I apologize if this has been covered before. I have looked here and everywhere. And I even contacted streaming apps tech support and they couldn’t answer it.
To make a long story short, circumstances have forced me to watch movies and tv shows on ipad pro 12.9 2021 release. I am now in the process of researching headphones and will be buying a couple of over ear wired headphones to try out.
I do subscribe to apple music, but majority of my entertainment is spent watching movies and tv shows from streaming apps: apple tv app, prime video, hbo max, netflix, hulu and disney +..
The audio soundtracks of the movies on these apps are either stereo pcm, dolby digital, dolby digital plus or dolby atmos.
How will these play on headphones from the ipad’s usb-c output?
Well stereo pcm of older material is self explanatory. Also my understanding is that dolby digital and dolby digital plus is converted to stereo pcm as well.
But Dolby Atmos is the gray area. Even though it too is converted to two channels there is a potential to spatialize, like in apple music.
In fact when I contacted Apple tech support, they were totally confused (without admitting it ofcourse) between dolby atmos in music and dolby atmos in apple tv app.
So… does anyone know whether all, any or none of these apps spatialize dolby atmos through the headphone output on the ipad?
And if not then the follow up question would be: is there an effective ‘wired headphone’ solution that will give decent surround sound, a solution focused on movies rather than games or music?
Thanks to you all in advance,
I apologize if this has been covered before. I have looked here and everywhere. And I even contacted streaming apps tech support and they couldn’t answer it.
To make a long story short, circumstances have forced me to watch movies and tv shows on ipad pro 12.9 2021 release. I am now in the process of researching headphones and will be buying a couple of over ear wired headphones to try out.
I do subscribe to apple music, but majority of my entertainment is spent watching movies and tv shows from streaming apps: apple tv app, prime video, hbo max, netflix, hulu and disney +..
The audio soundtracks of the movies on these apps are either stereo pcm, dolby digital, dolby digital plus or dolby atmos.
How will these play on headphones from the ipad’s usb-c output?
Well stereo pcm of older material is self explanatory. Also my understanding is that dolby digital and dolby digital plus is converted to stereo pcm as well.
But Dolby Atmos is the gray area. Even though it too is converted to two channels there is a potential to spatialize, like in apple music.
In fact when I contacted Apple tech support, they were totally confused (without admitting it ofcourse) between dolby atmos in music and dolby atmos in apple tv app.
So… does anyone know whether all, any or none of these apps spatialize dolby atmos through the headphone output on the ipad?
And if not then the follow up question would be: is there an effective ‘wired headphone’ solution that will give decent surround sound, a solution focused on movies rather than games or music?
Thanks to you all in advance,