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SteveColl
Contributor I
February 1, 2021
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Can the PS5 output Dolby Atmos to the Arc?

does anyone know how (if possoble) you can get the ps5 to output dolby atmos to the arc via the LG GX when playing a 4k bluray?

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SteveCollAnswer
Contributor I
February 1, 2021

Put Avengers on and atmos is working. Thanks for all your help this evening @GuitarSuperstar I'll be more vigilant at checking the box before assuming it's got atmos in future.

Thanks so much once again for the advice for getting 5.1 also.

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GuitarSuperstar
Lead Maestro
February 1, 2021

According to this article, the PS5 can output Dolby Atmos audio from Blu-ray discs: https://www.ign.com/wikis/playstation-5/How_to_Enable_Surround_Sound

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    Info ear
    Trending Lyricist I
    February 1, 2021

    This is a great question.  I dont know the answer but I'd def like to know the same answer as it pertains to the Sonos Amp which I'm currently installing. 

    GuitarSuperstar
    Lead Maestro
    February 1, 2021

    @Info ear The Sonos Amp doesn’t support Dolby Atmos audio. It doesn’t even support lossless Dolby TrueHD which is how Dolby Atmos audio is carried on UHD and Blu-ray discs.

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      SteveCollAuthor
      Contributor I
      February 1, 2021

      According to this article, the PS5 can output Dolby Atmos audio from Blu-ray discs: https://www.ign.com/wikis/playstation-5/How_to_Enable_Surround_Sound

      Hey thanks for your reply. I have tried all that and still no atmos, perhaps it is a pairing issue with the arc and ps5?

      GuitarSuperstar
      Lead Maestro
      February 1, 2021

      @SteveColl Can you send your TV’s current HDMI and audio settings? What specific Blu-ray discs are you testing?

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      SteveCollAuthor
      Contributor I
      February 1, 2021

      @SteveColl Can you send your TV’s current HDMI and audio settings? What specific Blu-ray discs are you testing?

      Yeah sure, hdmi 1 is set to bitstream and sound out is hdmi eArc.

      Film I was trying it on is a UHD bluray of tenet. 

      GuitarSuperstar
      Lead Maestro
      February 1, 2021

      @SteveColl Tenet does not have Dolby Atmos audio on Blu-ray or UHD. It is encoded with a DTS-HD Master Audio track. The best audio you can get from the Tenet disc on the Sonos Arc is 5.1 PCM which still sounds really great.

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      SteveCollAuthor
      Contributor I
      February 1, 2021

      @SteveColl Tenet does not have Dolby Atmos audio on Blu-ray or UHD. It is encoded with a DTS-HD Master Audio track.

      So it does, how strange. I just automatically assumed a film like that on a uhd disc would be atmos. Still saying it's coming out in 2.0 stereo in the app tho. 

      I'm going to put on uhd avengers endgame and see if that works.

       

      Info ear
      Trending Lyricist I
      February 1, 2021

      @GuitarSuperstar wait a min- are you telling me that even with the hdmi connected to the ARC-HDMI of my TV ( LG OLED) which does support Dolby atmosphere that my Sonos Amp will not pass that signal along unaltered?  If that's the case what is the point of them even making it?

      GuitarSuperstar
      Lead Maestro
      February 1, 2021

      @SteveColl When you play the Tenet disc again, try setting the Audio Format setting on the PS5 to Linear PCM. You want the PS5 to convert DTS to PCM so you can get Multichannel PCM 5.1 from all of your DTS-encoded Blu-rays.

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