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NETFLIX 5.1 Dolby Digital Plus PLAYBASE

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hello everyone now I'm going crazy, when I use netflix by setting the high quality of streaming I can't hear the dialogue the voice of the speech well .. I activated the dialogue improvement from the app but I don't like it, I always have to be with the remote control in the hand to raise and lower the volume, speaking with netflix assistance they explained that most of them are in Dolby Digital Plus, DTS in fact and how the central channel of the playbase was missing

https://help.netflix.com/en/node/14163

Sonos Playbase

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Ken_Griffiths

Slower? You’re suggesting light travels slower than electricity? I’d have thought the difference was bandwidth, not speed.

Goodness me..!! I did have a bad day yesterday with my ‘no-so-thinking’ head on straight. Yes indeed, I meant “bandwidth” rather than speed. I know, I will change it to “through-put” to hide my embarrassment. I’ll just go have a lie down Bruce. Thanks for putting that straight.

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Slower? You’re suggesting light travels slower than electricity? I’d have thought the difference was bandwidth, not speed.

Goodness me..!! I did have a bad day yesterday with my ‘no-so-thinking’ head on straight. Yes indeed, I meant “bandwidth” rather than speed. I know, I will change it to “through-put” to hide my embarrassment. I’ll just go have a lie down Bruce. Thanks for putting that straight.

on the playbase with optical output you can have the dts, I don't say atmos because it takes hdmi

TOSLINK now 125 Mbit/s

Ken_Griffiths

Serravalc,

Sonos seem to be firmly in the Dolby camp with their HT products too date (both new and old) and if you look at today’s primary streaming movie services, like Netflix, Amazon, Rakuten, Hulu, Apple etc… all are Dolby based too. We even now often finding Dolby TrueHD on blu-ray Movies and games .. and of course things are heading towards Atmos with downward firing (or upward reflective) speakers to create audio objects in a 3D space.

Couple that with what Amazon and Tidal are doing with Atmos too .. it seems obvious to me that it’s unlikely DTS will attract Sonos away from their current chosen path.

Apple and Microsoft are already down the Dolby MAT/TrueHD path too with Apple TV 4K and XBox One S.

I think that even ignoring licensing matters, that current Sonos hardware should stick with Dolby 5.1 for now (it’s extremely compatible with most things these days) then let’s hope the next generation of Sonos Hardware steps past DTS and aims for DD plus (in the least) or maybe goes full Dolby Atmos (compressed and uncompressed formats) over HDMI-eARC… that would be a “true” winner in my book.

Sadly, Sonos do not announce their roadmap going forward, so we will all just have to wait and see what comes next.

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serravalcAuthor

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Serravalc,

Sonos seem to be firmly in the Dolby camp with their HT products too date (both new and old) and if you look at today’s primary streaming movie services, like Netflix, Amazon, Rakuten, Hulu, Apple etc… all are Dolby based too. We even now often finding Dolby TrueHD on blu-ray Movies and games .. and of course things are heading towards Atmos with downward firing (or upward reflective) speakers to create audio objects in a 3D space.

Couple that with what Amazon and Tidal are doing with Atmos too .. it seems obvious to me that it’s unlikely DTS will attract Sonos away from their current chosen path.

Apple and Microsoft are already down the Dolby MAT/TrueHD path too with Apple TV 4K and XBox One S.

I think that even ignoring licensing matters, that current Sonos hardware should stick with Dolby 5.1 for now (it’s extremely compatible with most things these days) then let’s hopr the next generation of Sonos Hardware steps past DTS and aims for DD plus (in the least) 🤞or maybe goes full Dolby Atmos (compressed and uncompressed formats) over HDMI-eARC… that would be a “true” winner in my book.

Sadly, Sonos do not announce their roadmap going forward, so we will all just have to wait and see what comes next.

hopefully ... although in May in my opinion something will come out anyway a great pity because the quality is excellent, with netflix I always have to keep the remote in my hand and turn the volume up or down, do you also have the playbase? Does it make a difference to replace the optical cable by taking a better one?

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Beagle

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Serravalc,

Sonos seem to be firmly in the Dolby camp with their HT products too date (both new and old) and if you look at today’s primary streaming movie services, like Netflix, Amazon, Rakuten, Hulu, Apple etc… all are Dolby based too. We even now often finding Dolby TrueHD on blu-ray Movies and games .. and of course things are heading towards Atmos with downward firing (or upward reflective) speakers to create audio objects in a 3D space.

Couple that with what Amazon and Tidal are doing with Atmos too .. it seems obvious to me that it’s unlikely DTS will attract Sonos away from their current chosen path.

Apple and Microsoft are already down the Dolby MAT/TrueHD path too with Apple TV 4K and XBox One S.

I think that even ignoring licensing matters, that current Sonos hardware should stick with Dolby 5.1 for now (it’s extremely compatible with most things these days) then let’s hopr the next generation of Sonos Hardware steps past DTS and aims for DD plus (in the least) 🤞or maybe goes full Dolby Atmos (compressed and uncompressed formats) over HDMI-eARC… that would be a “true” winner in my book.

Sadly, Sonos do not announce their roadmap going forward, so we will all just have to wait and see what comes next.

hopefully ... although in May in my opinion something will come out anyway a great pity because the quality is excellent, with netflix I always have to keep the remote in my hand and turn the volume up or down, do you also have the playbase? Does it make a difference to replace the optical cable by taking a better one?

I think Sonos are quite lazy and complacent, only updating products when absolutely forced to. They managed to get any customer wanting DTS to find their own solution hiding behind pretending to be only catering for streaming services. Now with those providers moving to high res, DD+, Atmos etc they now have no choice. Expect the bare minimum of features they can get away with even with the competition catching up and even overtaking them. Given the fiasco around their May announcement I still like the audio quality but not the company any more. Rant over!

Ken_Griffiths

My hope of course is that the next generation of HT hardware will at least support all the Dolby formats DD.2.1/DD5.1 DD+5.1/DD MAT. It would be nice if they were to also include Atmos and perhaps Dolby TrueHD (uncompressed) too.

I will just wait patiently and see what happens.

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