Ace TrueCinema or Arc Ultra...

Oops sorry my comment above is not correct - the verge review does in fact say ‘later this year’ rather than next year. My mistake.

So maybe anytime before the end of the year. Assuming there’s no ‘slippage’ in the development/testing of the feature.

@Ken_Griffiths

That’s what I was also remembering in my mind… „later this year“. And regarding to the massive app issues I‘m not surprised that it will at least mean „late this year“ or „end of the year“. Any other timeline would have been unprofessional behavior. 

Admittedly I thought I had read somewhere that TrueCinema was due next year 2025 - but I can’t find where I might have read that. I’ll keep looking.

I assume the Sonos developers were diverted by the CEO to concentrate on fixing the Sonos App ‘missing features’ and bugs etc. first, so it would not surprise me if this TrueCinema feature is introduced at some later stage, either during, or post, December because there’s still a list of Sonos App updates/fixes scheduled for December, which include… 

• Improved volume control & responsiveness (Android)
• Playlist editing
• Album art for music library (Android)
• Support for Android users moving between multiple systems
• Improved music playback error handling
• Snooze Alarms

Clearly only Sonos will know when the feature is ready to roll-out and they don’t normally announce these things until they are ready.

I remain convinced though, that TrueCinema will not just be a feature for the new Arc Ultra only and that it will likely be available for use with the older Sonos Arc aswell, particularly as the media reviews mention it working with that soundbar. I’m personally hoping it will be available with the Sonos Beam too🤞 - but lets just wait and see what happens.

Are you suggesting that the live video session that I and others watched in early June never happened?

Sorry, I don’t know what live video session you’re referring to? My own posts here were just centred around what I read in the various media articles online. I’ve tried to provide some links to the things I’m referring to.

Can you perhaps kindly provide a link to the video you’re referring to here. I’m still looking for the other articles I read online pre/post the period the Ace was launched.

Sonos could clear this up by communicating their plans for True Cinema. They must have a timeline for delivery by now as it’s several months overdue or if it’s truly vapor ware just let us know, get it over with. 

The trouble is if they were to say TrueCinema will be released before the end of the year …and then come 1st January, it’s nowhere to be seen, then some people may get upset at Sonos for not keeping to their deadline. Who knows what issues maybe unearthed during testing of the feature and presumably it has to work with all the various Sonos Soundbar, surrounds and Sub(s) combinations that might be in the listening environment room.

I just ‘quickly’ read back through this thread and see some users were mentioning July as a launch-date for the TrueCinema feature and of course that might have been mentioned - but you only have to observe the reaction when that date has been and gone - plus I’m not sure if that might even have been a mistake by whoever said it, as there was certainly TV AudioSwap to be added to the Beam (gen1&2) and the Ray beforehand - so maybe those things caused slippage to the TrueCinena launch - or the fact that the CEO later announced the plan to focus Sonos staff on fixing issues with the new Sonos App.

So it doesn’t seem sensible to me for Sonos to set a date - maybe they should just say TrueCinema might show on the Sonos Ace either this year or next and leave it there, just so that expectations are not raised to the extent where users complain when it’s not in the next App/Firmware update, or the next, or the next.

Admittedly the various media articles point to the feature coming later, during this year, but I guess that’s no guarantee and Sonos App updates are still listed for November & December.

Heres another site/article I found…

https://www.techguide.com.au/news/audio-news/at-last-sonos-releases-its-first-pair-of-headphones-the-sonos-ace/

I just personally expect to see the TrueCinema feature when it lands - and I’m pretty sure that much like Trueplay itself, the effect that TrueCinena may have, in some user environments, will be to just make some ‘subtle’ changes to the Ace TV swapped audio, hopefully matching what can be heard in the room. It’s described as mimicking a sound similar to the room itself.

For me, the Ace TV ‘swapped’ audio with the Sonos Arc, connected to our main Living Room TV, sounds very good anyway and I can say the same for the Sonos Beam in our Kitchen/Diner too. So I’m not in any rush to get my hands on this ‘nice to have’ feature, as I personally have more important things I would like to see Sonos fix.

@Ken_Griffiths 

…me too! 👍🏻

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Requested Video recording at the link below

The discussion of TrueCinema delivery starts after 14:00. They clearly state “late summer early fall” for all features discussed, including TrueCinema.

Ace Behind The Scenes 

Found a reddit thread that summarized  https://www.reddit.com/r/sonos/s/toErbUMl59