Playbar and hdmi rumor. (late 2018 / early 2019)

Ah. So that's where you get your 'faux' stereo argument from . Fine. I'm not an audio purest, and honestly do feel like it's a mess when I have full channel stereo on with music sources. That would be faux stereo as well according to you're definition. This what I want.

Also, I find it interesting that you're preferences your comment by saying it's a mess for small/medium room. I can somewhat agree with that. However, given my home and a many many homes these days are open concept, there is a large customer base that are using the Sonos 5.1 setup in a larger room.

Call it ambient sound if you prefer...
It's not a mess because it depends also on current gain volume level.
Of course if you can pump up the volume, you can put 300watt speaker and listen like hell, or be in an anechoic room and listen like a pro and definitely NOT need multichannel stereo or full stereo (not fake stereo).

Just I would like to talk seriously about this with the Sonos team, if you don't need it, just don't use it.

New! home theater Sonos product will be presented June 6!

New! home theater Sonos product will be presented June 6!

Link?

https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2018/5/3/17314980/sonos-2018-event-date-announced-new-playbar-playbase

Cool. Thanks.

Just actually read it. Interesting. The associated image seems to imply that the new device will reduce the number of remotes you use. That could just be referring to Alexa's limited ability to turn on the tv and a other commands through voice. I wonder if it also means that Sonos plans on using the hdmi connection to send commands to the tv. Since I'm not an expert on hdmi, I don't know how functional that could be.

In the realm of pure speculation and dreaming. I've always thought that Amazon's next move with Alexa would be put voice control on a fire tv (built in, not remote) along with a camera for video conferencing and such. It seems like a good product, however, the fire tv, is not usually located in a good spot for voice control and a camera. However, a soundbar would be a much better spot. I kinda doubt that Amazon would allow their voice conferencing and other stuff to be in an non Amazon product, but then again, soundbars and HT is out of their wheelhouse. Perhaps they are willing to make an exception for this. I would be amazed if this new product is a good HT and essentially turns your tv into a giant echo show.

Most interesting. Thanks for the link, melvimbe! And the catch, Camillo777.

One has to wonder how long it will be between the announcement and the actual release. If I recall correctly (and I wasn't paying a ton of attention) it was relatively quick for the PLAYBASE, say a month or so?

We won’t know until there is either a confirmation on a release from Sonos this year...or not. As much as I want it to be true doesn’t mean it is true. So I’ll hope for the best, and not be wildly disappointed if it doesn’t pan out.

But in the meantime, I do need to do some research with regards to his claims. I haven’t been following HDMI 2.1 very closely.

The part that makes it fake to me is the fact that their would be so few TVs that would have a function like eARC, and Sonos’ propensity for maximizing revenue by hitting the widest market possible. If Sonos had shown in the past that they were releasing hardware at the cutting edge of technology, I’d deem this more probable.

I hope I’m wrong, but I do want this thread to be a balanced understanding of the potential, and not a “OMG, it’s going to be released next week” thread. So far, it hasn’t. I want others to apply a critical eye to this, much as we have so far.

Since TheVerge has found a filing for an HDMI port and Alexa, I would assume they are going to add Amazon Firestick capabilities to the PlayBar. That would require an HDMI port. I still believe they will keep an optical port for audio output on most TVs.

When a smartphone manufacturer starts to work on a new mobile, we get all details about it before launch. Rumors about the product will give the exact details about what is cooking. Now that we have only one week for the new product release, why there're still no details about it anywhere other than the FCC filing info? Are they really careful in not revealing their products or nobody is interested :8?