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Chromecast google tv + Sonos surround 5.1?

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Hi! There have been some questions about this before but I have to ask ones more. I have an LG tv (65uf772v-zw) set up with Beam, sub and two ikea symfonisk. My tv is to old for having the Disney + app and I'm thinking of buying the new Chromecast with google tv. But... does anyone here att this forum know if I will get 5.1 with Disney +? If I read about my tv it have DD and dts decoder.

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/Calle

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Based on my research, your TV model was released in 2015, so there is probably a 50% chance that your TV will not be able to pass through 5.1 audio from any external media device. And more than likely, there isn’t going to be anyone in this community with your exact LG TV model using a Chromecast with Google TV. If I were you, I would just get the Chromecast and test it. If it works, then great. If it doesn’t, return the Chromecast or consider getting the HDFury Arcana. The Arcana allows any external media device, like a Chromecast, to bypass your TV’s limitations and send audio directly to the Beam.

https://hdfury.com/product/4k-arcana-18gbps/

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GuitarSuperstarAnswer

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Based on my research, your TV model was released in 2015, so there is probably a 50% chance that your TV will not be able to pass through 5.1 audio from any external media device. And more than likely, there isn’t going to be anyone in this community with your exact LG TV model using a Chromecast with Google TV. If I were you, I would just get the Chromecast and test it. If it works, then great. If it doesn’t, return the Chromecast or consider getting the HDFury Arcana. The Arcana allows any external media device, like a Chromecast, to bypass your TV’s limitations and send audio directly to the Beam.

https://hdfury.com/product/4k-arcana-18gbps/

"Receive with simplicity everything that happens to you." - Rashi

106rallye

Even if your TV is able to pass a form of 5.1 to a Beam, a Chromecast uses DD+, a specific form of 5.1. If your TV passes DD+ to a Beam is the next question. And, maybe even more important: only the Beam (Gen 2) is capable of playing DD+, so if you own a Gen 1 a Chromecast would only be playing stereo even if your TV would be DD+ ready.

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Carl-MagnusAuthor

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Ok, thanks. Is it the same problem if I use a Xiaomi mi tv stick?

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Carl-MagnusAuthor

Contributor I

Does anyone use my set up and a tv box (not chromecast) or stick that gives you 5.1?

106rallye

My old Samsung did not get 5.1 from a Chromecast, but did give me 5.1 from an Apple TV 3.

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Carl-MagnusAuthor

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My old Samsung did not get 5.1 from a Chromecast, but did give me 5.1 from an Apple TV 3.

Ok. Was that from DD+ to DD?

My issue is that I want to "down"code disney + from DD+ to DD. I heard that appletv4k is able to do that but I wonder if other boxen like mi box is able too.

106rallye

As I understand it the Chromecast can only do DD+ (or possibly stereo too). Your TV and your Beam (gen 1) cannot do DD+, so the TV reverts (or asks the Chromecast to revert) to stereo. An Apple TV can do DD, do when the TV tells it it can do DD but not DD+, the TV gets DD to relay to the Beam.

This is a trial and error process, so be sure you can send an item back when you order it and it doesn't work.

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Carl-MagnusAuthor

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As I understand it the Chromecast can only do DD+ (or possibly stereo too). Your TV and your Beam (gen 1) cannot do DD+, so the TV reverts (or asks the Chromecast to revert) to stereo. An Apple TV can do DD, do when the TV tells it it can do DD but not DD+, the TV gets DD to relay to the Beam.

This is a trial and error process, so be sure you can send an item back when you order it and it doesn't work.

I think is so amazing bad of Sonos that Beam can't do DD+. It's not that old. I had never bought it If I knew I couldn't watch Disney + with surround. I thought Sonos was quality but...maybe I will sell and get another brand that you can trust.

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John B

As I understand it the Chromecast can only do DD+ (or possibly stereo too). Your TV and your Beam (gen 1) cannot do DD+, so the TV reverts (or asks the Chromecast to revert) to stereo. An Apple TV can do DD, do when the TV tells it it can do DD but not DD+, the TV gets DD to relay to the Beam.

This is a trial and error process, so be sure you can send an item back when you order it and it doesn't work.

I think is so amazing bad of Sonos that Beam can't do DD+. It's not that old. I had never bought it If I knew I couldn't watch Disney + with surround. I thought Sonos was quality but...maybe I will sell and get another brand that you can trust.

Sorry, but I think this is mistaken. The Beam will play DD5.1 from a DD+ stream - the ‘handshake between the Beam and the TV would tell the TV to send DD5.1. Most TVs would do this. Disney+ broadcasting in DD+ does NOT mean that one cannot get surround from the Beam.

See, for example, this thread

Ken_Griffiths

I think is so amazing bad of Sonos that Beam can't do DD+. It's not that old. I had never bought it If I knew I couldn't watch Disney + with surround. I thought Sonos was quality but...maybe I will sell and get another brand that you can trust.

The gen2 Beam already does DD+ 5.1. That wasn’t a popular codec amongst the streaming services when the gen1 Beam was first released and so that older HT speaker supports DD5.1.. that codec still works fine today though with most streaming services, that’s as long as the ‘older’ TV will pass-through that audio format. If it doesn’t, then the answer is to perhaps use a compatible audio extractor and bypass the TV altogether.

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