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myraid
Contributor I
May 9, 2020
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New Sonos ARC - DTS support

Hi.

I have a Sony OLED A8F that only has ARC.   I understand the support sequence for Dolby decoding but wondering if Sonos will now be able to support DTS decoding?  Many of my movies I have ripped to disk using the best sound option only and many of those are any line of DTS.  Can you please verify if the new ARC will support any of these?

Thanks

 

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controlav
controlavAnswer
Lead Maestro
May 10, 2020

The web site lists a lot of codecs for the Arc, but DTS is absent. The FAQ page says eARC supports Dolby Atmos, TrueHD, MAT, Dolby Digital Plus, and Dolby Digital.

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Airgetlam
Airgetlam
May 9, 2020

Sonos has made no indication that they intend to support DTS. We will have to see what S2 reveals when it released.

Given their announcement around Atmos, it seems unlikely that DTS would be included, though, as you’d think that would have been an good time to make that announcement as well. 

Bruce
    Arkka
    Lyricist III
    May 9, 2020

    Hi.

    I have a Sony OLED A8F that only has ARC.   I understand the support sequence for Dolby decoding but wondering if Sonos will now be able to support DTS decoding?  Many of my movies I have ripped to disk using the best sound option only and many of those are any line of DTS.  Can you please verify if the new ARC will support any of these?

    Thanks

     

    They didn’t add DTS to playbar, playbase, beam or amp so IMO they aren’t likely to add it to arc. Hopefully I’m wrong.

    Hopefully your media player converts DTS to DD5.1 for you.

    controlav
    controlavAnswer
    Lead Maestro
    May 10, 2020

    The web site lists a lot of codecs for the Arc, but DTS is absent. The FAQ page says eARC supports Dolby Atmos, TrueHD, MAT, Dolby Digital Plus, and Dolby Digital.

    Author of the leading independent Sonos apps for Android, MacOS, iOS, Windows and Xbox.
    myraidAuthor
    Contributor I
    May 11, 2020

    Thanks to all.  Somewhat disappointed by this as I may have to bail on the new ARC.  Have it preordered at the moment but if there is no DTS  support,  I will probably go the receiver route for that room.

     

      Lalligator
      Lyricist III
      May 11, 2020

      Thanks to all.  Somewhat disappointed by this as I may have to bail on the new ARC.  Have it preordered at the moment but if there is no DTS  support,  I will probably go the receiver route for that room.

       

      The dts deficiency could be compensated for if your source decodes DTS and outputs it in multichannel pcm (most do) IF the Arc supported multichannel PCM… which it, based on currently announced specs, doesn’t. I’ve been banging on about this in a few threads, but the lack of lpcm is a much more critical problem than lack of dts support - which, of itself, is somewhat absurd, considering the prevalence and presence of DTS in audio products 1/10 of the Arc’s price.

        chicks
        chicks
        May 11, 2020

        Very likely because of DTS Play-Fi, the awful but widely-adopted multi-room competitor to Sonos.  Yet another infringer on Sonos’ many patents, without a doubt.

        Steelstar
        Avid Contributor II
        May 13, 2020

        I was waiting for this new bar, believing that it would finally support DD+ AND DTS. I was wrong. I’ll stick it to my AVR setup, which supports all kinds of codecs.

        I love Sonos, but - at this point - this choice of keeping DTS support out really is not understandable.

          ti33er
          Trending Lyricist I
          May 17, 2020

          I still cannot fathom the pigheadedness of SONOS about DTS support. I would buy one if it did this; but I’m not going to ghost 90% of my Bluray collection because they are so tight as not to pay £1 or so (per device) DTS Core license!

           

          Please SONOS, listen to your Customers and potential new Customers!
           

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            Lalligator
            Lyricist III
            May 17, 2020

            I still cannot fathom the pigheadedness of SONOS about DTS support. I would buy one if it did this; but I’m not going to ghost 90% of my Bluray collection because they are so tight as not to pay £1 or so (per device) DTS Core license!

             

            Please SONOS, listen to your Customers and potential new Customers!
             

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            I mean, I get it if they have an ongoing disagreement over the competing DTS streaming technology and patents (as it appears), but in that case I’d make triple sure to support multichannel pcm so everybody with earc at least can overcome the problem this invariably creates.

              Tejs Dyrvig Ernst
              May 17, 2020

              Sonos will not be changing their the policy on this. Really not worth requesting it or in any way for hoping/planning for it in the future. 
               

              Get a blu-ray player that will transcode to DD 5.1 on the fly and forget all about it. 
               

              I have a Samsung BD-player that does the trick for me. Most recent consoles should also be able to do it. I saw a recent post confirming this for the PS4 and my Xbox One is also able to do it.  

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