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Contributor I
February 12, 2013

Please add support for DTS for the Sonos Playbar.

A hifi homecinema soundbar without dts support seems not up to date for me. Are there any plans to add dts support?
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    Contributor I
    March 11, 2013
    DTS support for me too please.
    Lyricist I
    March 12, 2013
    DTS support is critical to the success of Playbar Count my vote
    Lyricist I
    March 12, 2013
    No DTS - no great success
    Lyricist II
    March 12, 2013
    Yes, this is true, playbar doesnot play DTS, but is there not ability to change software inside machine? I am not very good with software, but many peoples can fix such things with great creativity and skill. I learned about the non-DTS support of the playbar, but had not thought about the problems with MKVs and bluerays. that many of these only come with DTS. Thanks you for pointing this out, girl above, but this thought has got me now worried instead. I want the super nice noise that the playbar can make, i have hear this machine and it is GREAT! Especially with play3 also. And base box for those who have the moneys. I want to buy this playbar, because I can afford it, but I don't want no noise or just stereo 2.0 when playing DTS movies. 😕 Please, someone, help me and us. Can we change software in machine?
    Lyricist III
    March 12, 2013
    Playbar is excellent in all areas except, DTS! Its spot on with SkyHD, optical output to the Sky HD gives My Samsung TV sound that it desperately needed, but as most blu-ray content is outputting DTS its a shame its missing from the PlayBar. Needs adding to the supported formats.
    Lyricist II
    March 13, 2013
    Please add DTS support to the Playbar. So many Blu-Rays are encoded using DTS and to not support this is costing you customers.
    Trending Lyricist I
    March 14, 2013
    I'm holding out on buying a playbar until there is DTS support. I've got loads of painstakingly encodes films sitting on my NAS all of which carry a DTS soundtrack. I understand Sonos's argument that the future is streaming TV and video and that maybe so but until I find a crazy bloke called doc with a flux-capacitor touting delorean I'm stuck in 2013 with a ton of films I can only watch in stereo should I add a playbar to my sonos setup! Unfortunately I'm guessing Sonos will be unwilling to absorb the cost of the DTS licence for those who have already purchased it, which is a shame because it should have really had DTS support from the start. So how about this... Add DTS in the next firmware update and add an 'in-app' purchase on the iOS and Android controllers for those of us who want DTS decoding. Of course I'd rather sonos just add it anyway (it will certainly go down better with customers) but if the licence cost is the stumbling block then it isn't going away so perhaps this is the only option? Come on Sonos, my wife is no tech-head but if I explained that I'd just purchased something which makes films sound worse than our current 5.1 setup (i.e. downmixed stereo) I'd never hear the end of it! And she loves the Sonos system we have!!
    Trending Lyricist I
    March 14, 2013
    Also, the DTS omission is even more alarming from a company like Sonos when you consider we have all spent a long time encoding our CD collections to FLAC (or whatever) so we have music at our fingertips. Why then shouldn't we want the same flexibility with our films (as is the case with me at least - coupled with a WDTV Live to decode the films) and yet the Sonos Playbar (without the DTS codec) suddenly becomes the weak link in such a set up - forcing you to downmix to stereo. It looks like they've had their blinkers on when considering how people store and watch films (i.e. too focused on streaming services like netflix etc rather than appreciating that there are a lot of people who consume films in a similar fashion to how they listen to music on the Sonos, by that I mean video files located on a NAS drive - which invariably will carry a DTS soundtrack) ...
    Lyricist III
    March 14, 2013
    Exactly. Most films I watch have DTS audio. Yesterday I watched one and had to downmix the output to 2 channel PCM stereo to get the Playbar to make any sound. With DD5.1 audio it is fine. But whats the value in that when most films I watch have DTS soundtrack only. Yes I have already purchased a playbar in the hope DTS will be added at some point. But please note, combined with the sub its great for everything else like music.
    Avid Contributor I
    March 15, 2013
    DTS please!