PlayBar 2.0

I would suspect there would have to be with HDMI 2.1 and eARC coming out by Bose this September 2018 and Alexa. Come on Sonos, give us the Playbar 2.0 so we don’t end up having to go for the Bose Soundbar 700 on 9/20. Sonos is my preferred brand!!!!!

I'm holding out for this, as well. But... speaking as someone who just came over to Sonos from Bose: you do not want to go with them. Their stuff sounds great, but their technical side of things is a complete mess at the moment.

Yes, I’m waiting patiently for this Sonos product update too. I think the same as dashriprocket, it will most probably have HDMI-eARC.

I’m reasonably sure it will have voice control capability, like we see with the Beam and I reckon it might even go onto provide support for Dolby Atmos (hopefully) in some form.

i have both the beam and the playbar; and I think that the beam does a fine job of filling a large room if paired with a sub. my beam is in a large rectangular great room that measures about 45'x25'x15'. it sounds just fine. speech is clear, bass (with sub) is deep, pretty immersive. my playbar is currently in a famliy room that's much smaller, 20'x15'x10', and while it is certainly has more forceful bass than the beam alone, it still needs the sub to really pop.

personally, i think that for large rooms, you really need the sub to get that immersive surround sound. the place where i think i would choose the playbar is for smaller entertainment/family/movie rooms where you can get away with not having a sub.

a playbar 2.0 would be nice just from a design refresh POV, but I don't see any other reason to update the playbar unless they add some significant additional functionality like Atmos.

I'm a huge fan of my current setup – a Beam, paired with a Sub & 2 Sonos Ones. But... my plan is to move the Beam into a smaller room when Sonos releases their next big soundbar.

I know they're kinda downplaying Atmos at the moment, but imo, the floodgates seem to be opening with Atmos Soundbars. And Vizio just put one out at a very aggressive price point.

I really hope they are I love Sonos but the competition is getting real lol, The new Bose soundbar 700 has eArc support which is pretty awesome. I hope Sonos announces a playbar refresh and it would be awesome if it had dolby atmos support 😃

They’ll most likely release a new, larger bar with eARC within the next few years - only question is will be be sooner or later. I’m just hoping they finally include DTS codecs...

It would be interesting for them to include a new codec, since that means that all of their sound bars might need to support it, since it's a software based solution. I wonder what implication that has for licensing fees for the codec? I think I remember that DTS was per speaker used, rather than a single point license like Dolby Digital was. I may need to research that again, but if my memory is correct, I wonder what cost that would be to Sonos to have to pay an additional licensing fee for all previous speakers connected to a sound bar?

I'd certainly be willing to pay for it.

If it's software based, while messy, they could at least offer individual upgrades to people.

I'm holding out for this, as well. But... speaking as someone who just came over to Sonos from Bose: you do not want to go with them. Their stuff sounds great, but their technical side of things is a complete mess at the moment.

This, I first tried the Bose 5.1 before Sonos because IMO the Bose equipment looks much nicer than Sonos stuff and it still sounds good and actually the Bose Soundbar sounds better than the Sonos Playbar

BUT... Bose software is a mess, getting the Bose 5.1 setup to actually work was a total nightmare and I could not figure it out after 2 days of trying, after failing that when I tried to do the software update the Bose soundbar decided to brick itself...