DTS is okay, we actually need DTS-X and DTS-HD capability

Hi @awazinawab,

Thanks for your request. I’ve passed your comments on to our development team for consideration 

Was there any reason why not to implement the HD version do you know? Can understand X, but seems odd to add a codec that is outdated and not add the modern one. 

It is great that Sonos have given DTS but i am afraid there will be a lot of rather frustrated people as the majority (who have expensive quality hardware) will have DTS HD and DTS X discs in there machines as bog standard DTS was overtaken BY DTS HD when Blu Ray became popular. i was delighted when i saw the 13.4 update gave DTS but find myself left disappointed that my discs are still useless in their original format because they are HD and above not just vanilla DTS,

So come on Sonos go the whole way and give us the full HD DTS, as the others have said (You can do it, we know you can. If you wish, charge us for it. That way, only those who have paid a certain premium like $100 for DTS-X and DTS-HD compatibility can get compatibility and regular updates via software.) i would pay a fee if required.

Bc

Sonos users have been asking for DTS support since play bar came out around 2013 and sonos initially considered and said No (you can find it on the forum).

So it took them almost 9 years(and many users requests) to support DTS.  maybe another 8 years and many more user requests till they support DTS-HD and DTS-X.  

by the way I think other than Bose, almost all other sound bar brands especially in sonos price range support Dolby Atmos and DTS-X already. 

How right you are!

It's been a long time coming, hopefully not another nine years because the competition is getting closer to the quality of Sonos and i for one would swap if it came to it.

However i have invested a lot of money in Sonos equipment so am hoping they chose to look after their customers so they remain loyal. 

This is a first step, with others to follow sooner than we think.

I was very enthusiastic when i heard of the support of dts,but it was a bit of a bummer. I have quiet some movies DTS-HD MA and knowing i'm not listening to the best possible audio annoys me a lot. Come on Sonos, give us HQ audio for the premium price we pay for the Arc.

Set your Blu-ray player to convert DTS to PCM and you should get lossless multichannel PCM audio from all of your DTS-encoded discs. Multichannel PCM sounds just as good as DTS-HD Master Audio in my opinion.

NOTE: Multichannel PCM audio requires a TV with HDMI eARC. If DTS-HD Master Audio was supported, it would require eARC too.

I would hope they sound the same, Multichannel PCM is the decoded/uncompressed DTS-HD data.  It’s not going to light up a DTS-HD icon, but it’ll sound exactly the same. 

Please get this!

Not all TVs can pass through lossless PCM 5.1 without issue. E.g. LC C9/C1/CX. They and other TVs tend to not be able to pass it through or pass it through as stereo PCM.

It’d be so much easier if the Sonos Arc natively supported these formats.

Yes its DTS-X we want!!!!!!

Yes please Sonos! I’d even pay for the additional support. As said before the Arc would would seriously benefit from this and would keep me as a customer knowing my investment was worth it and not worth selling and jumping to the competition that are really stepping up their game…

I just want regular and actual 5.1 FOR REAL on my Arc/Sub/One system using an LG CX and Apple TV. I don’t want 7.1 LPCM or 2.1 PCM or whatever they all are. Everything I do is streaming. It’s ridiculous to me that I can’t watch shows using that setting on a $3,000+ setup. I am really getting sick of it and it’s so frustrating. Sonos, just frigging do it!!! 

Hi James, 

Has there been any update around this support? Any love from the devs for us Sonos fans?

@Jeffrey_35 I'm not sure your post belongs in this section as streaming services do not use DTS, but 5.1 should be achievable with your set up, if the source provides it.

Can you open a new thread describing your set up and the problem you face?

It sounds like you perhaps may have the TV HDMI input format set to ‘PCM’ rather than ‘Bitstream’ - and using multichannel LPCM, whereas you could choose to use Dolby 5.1/Plus/Dolby (Atmos) audio (compressed) instead, which the majority of streaming services are using these days. …Oh and apologies for ‘briefly’ moving this thread off topic.