- Eclipsa Audio is a rival of Dolby Atmos by Samsung and Google
- It is on the TVs and sound bars of Samsung 2025, Chrome and YouTube
- But it is not yet on the headphones or Samsung phones …
Imagine that you have created a new and incredible platform for audio and want the world to use. And imagine that you also have the eyes of the world put in you because you are throwing one of the most desired smartphones in the world. Want:
(a) Do you use the telephone to promote your incredible new audio?
or (b) Not doing that?
Surprisingly, Samsung chose (b) for the launch of the Samsung Galaxy S25. We really thought we would see (and listen) support for Eclipsa Audio, Samsung and Google’s rival for Dolby Atmos. But not. And that is really strange.
A total eclipse
It is really strange because we know that Eclipsa will arrive in Android. It is in an upcoming version of the Android open source project (AOSP). But software support is only part of what you need to launch a new format. You need people too to know and, above all, that people are excited about it. And the best way to do it is to let people listen to it.
The launch of the Samsung Galaxy S25 would have been a great opportunity to make the train at least start making noise, and Samsung has already begun to talk about Eclipsa in its other products, because it will reach its sound bars and televisions of 2025. But The Android audio market is potentially much larger than that of sound bars and there are still no signs of the arrival of Eclipsa.
You could say – and I regret what I am about to write – that so far there has been a total eclipse.
We really thought that Samsung would use the Unpacked event to talk about Eclipsa and announce an update for Samsung Galaxy Buds 3 Pro to admit it, since also I need something to listen.
I suspect that one of the reasons why Samsung did not do it is because there is not much to listen to use the format. There will be no support for this in the best transmission services, apart from YouTube in the future.
As my colleague Matt Bolton wrote earlier this month, even if Samsung had announced the Eclipsa Audio support, he still needs more: “Samsung’s support alone will not be enough to generate impulse for Eclipsa; he really needs to get the best manufacturers of headphones for all budgets.
But in the world of phones and headphones at this time, Eclipsa does not even seem to have Samsung (or Google, for the case). At least not yet. Perhaps in the inevitable Samsung Unpacked of August the planets align for Eclipsa.
