Hi Mary.

Currently, movies that can be streamed via their watch instantly streaming
service are all in Dolby 2.0 which is straight stereo.  I would add however
that the sound quality is very good and if you have a surround sound
receiver, it will play as Dolby ProLogic which does indeed add quite a bit
to the enjoyment.  Having said that however, I have read via the rumor mill
that DD 5.1 streaming is being introduced but don't know when.

HTH



-----Original Message-----
From: pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org]
On Behalf Of Mary Otten
Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2010 10:45 AM
To: PC Audio Discussion List
Subject: Re: accessible surround sound receiver?

I appreciate the tip on the older accessible receivers. One of my major
interests here is netflix streaming, and somewhere I recently read that the
streams are in just 2-channel stereo, even if the dvd is encoded with dolby
digital 5.1. I tried to confirm that by looking at the streaming info for a
film that is available both as a dvd and as streamed content. The streaming
details didn't say anything about this aspect, while the dvd details talked
about 5.1 encoding, closed captioning and stated that the English sound was
5.1, while the French was dolby 2-channel. Does somebody know from
experience if surround sound is available with netflix streams? 

Mary


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