Microsoft Edge To Support Dolby Audio

jones_supa writes: Microsoft has revealed that its new Edge web browser will come with support for Dolby Audio in order to offer high-class audio when visiting websites. "It allows websites to match the compelling visuals of H.264 video with equally compelling multi-channel audio. It works well with AVC/H.264 video and also with our previously announced HLS and MPEG DASH Type 1 streaming features, which both support integrated playback of an HLS or DASH manifest," Microsoft explains in a blog post. Windows 10 will also ship with a Dolby Digital Plus codec.

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Re:Proprietary codec

[bill_mcgonigle]

Don't worry - it runs in kernel space for performance.

Re:Caught Up

[MobyDisk]

Everything about the web is like that. We are in the process of doing "on the web" everything we have already been doing locally for decades,

Good news for Netflix

[MobyDisk]

This is potentially good for Netflix since Windows users have been limited to stereo from Netflix for some time now since Netflix uses Silverlight.

Re:Good news for Netflix

[sexconker]

It's not a Silverlight limitation. Netflix limits the general web user to stereo for piracy concerns.

Up Next: Monster Cable Ethernet Protocol

[goombah99]

Microsoft will no doubt partner with Monster Cable to come up with a new IP Layer for transporting web pages with perfect fidelity, much the way that Monster Cable CAT-5 provides perfect Ethernet.

Re:Dolby??? What's that.

[adolf]

Dolby does a lot of good research. That you throw them aside as a relic of the past, while at the same time discrediting them for some of the formats you praise (AAC is a thing in part due in part to Dolby's participation in creating the standard) simply shows that you have a myopic and illogical view of the world.

Re:Dolby??? What's that.

[ihtoit]

Thank Dolby Labs for no-hiss DACs, noise-cancelling headphone cans, ADC floor filters, echo and feedback cancellation, cellular handsfree...