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HDMI Switch for ARC

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June 23, 2020
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Does anybody recommend a decent HDMI switch that can pass Dolby Atmos through to the ARC.

I have a bluray player that converts DTS to Dolby Digital and ideally would want HDMI cable from that to run into ARC along with a second one from TV (for my Atmos and DD5.1 sources)

That way I don't need to keep manually swapping Arc HDMI input everytime I watch a DTS movie

Thanks in advance

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Lyricist I

Did anyone find a solution for this ? I have a projector and TV that I want to connect to Sonos Arc. Currently I have to manually unplug and plug in the source I would be using.

Before I ordered Arc, Sonos support told me I could connect TV on HDMI and projector on optical. This way, Sonos Arc picks the active source and when both are active chooses the HDMI. However, I received my Arc yesterday and noticed it doesn’t have an optical input at all. Sonos support is clueless.

106rallye

Well, they where kind of right. You can use both, just not at the same time, because the Arc (like the Beam) utilizes the HDMI (the only connection) also for optical. They should have mentioned this if you stated your use case to them.

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Lyricist I

Indeed I did mention my usecase, twice, and that was their response. Otherwise, they wouldn’t have said “When both inputs were active, HDMI gets priority. If not, Arc chooses the active input automatically.” If they were conveying about single HDMI interface, there would never be a “both inputs were active” scenario.

Their first response was “Sorry you cannot use both TV and projector on HDMI. However, if you can connect one of them on optical, then you can connect both”.

106rallye

Must have read the Samsung booklet then....

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