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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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    Lyricist I
    June 5, 2013
    Love a response on the official position - really soon - system is great.... But my lush samsung tv support DTS via optical. Enabling this would get me buying play 3's for surround. Come on Sonos - do it!
    Lyricist III
    June 5, 2013
    I agree it's a horrific state of affairs that the Playbar doesn't support DTS - and I +1 it's addition here - if you use a Playstation 3 as a Blu-ray/DVD player it's worth knowing that if you connect the PS3 to the Playbar with a TOSLINK, the PS3 actually re-encodes DTS to Dolby on the fly. So I get true 5.1 from all my Blu-rays.
    Trending Lyricist I
    June 6, 2013
    lack of dts spoils what is otherwise a perfect product. works great with my plex sever on my samsung but I have to change the o/p of all my DTS files to PCM to get audio not buying a sub and 2* play 3 till DTS is supported. can't believe Sonos charge what they do and then scrimp on a DTS licence.
    Yup they've made too many compromises (no HDMI also comes to mind) on a premium priced product.
    Lyricist II
    June 6, 2013
    Disgraceful Over £1000 for a sound system that doesn't play audio on half my Blu-rays. I won't be recommending this system to anyone until its sorted out
    Contributor I
    June 15, 2013
    This has become a real pain. My wife had purchased this as an anniversary gift for me and we were looking forward to purchasing a set of play 3 speakers. Unfortunately, its proven to be more inconvenient than enjoyable without DTS support. A lot of the movies I play use DTS, I can use the 2 channel work around but my TV gives me that so what's the point? I'll be looking to see if I can return this. 😞
    Contributor I
    June 16, 2013
    The "fake 5.1" (Dolby Pro Logic) that the Playbar does is not bad (through the downmixed stereo optical out of basically every TV that's on the market right now). And I am sure a lot of Sonos customers don't pay close attention to that because it sounds "good enough". HOWEVER - I just hooked up the optical out of my Blu-ray player directly to my Playbar and WHAT A DIFFERENCE! The "true 5.1" sound simply BLEW ME AWAY. It's night and day.The fake Dolby Pro Logic 5.1 does not come close. I am sorry, Sonos. NOW - why do we still not have DTS decoding in the Playbar???This is incredibly frustrating. With one Blu-ray disc (Dolby 5.1) I was able to hear the fantastic potential or true 5.1 through the Playbar, but unfortunately all my other blu-rays have DTS audio only. I just spent an absolute premium on a 5.1 Playbar system (and I have to say - the stystem is a dream come true when it comes to setup and ease-of-use) - yet, I can't use it for DTS 5.1 out of my Blu-ray player. Please, Sonos, do fix this ASAP. Telling us this feature is "under consideration" is not good enough. You should be appologizing to all of us for selling us a Ferrari with tires that won't allow to drive faster than 35 mph. You're having a bit of a PR nightmare on your hands here (and rightfully so). The Sonos Playbar DTS debacle is all over the internet. This can't be good for future sales... Please do the one right thing, and fix this in a firmware upgrade - better sooner than later. Thanks.
    Trending Lyricist I
    June 16, 2013
    The lack of response is crazy. I guess Sonos aren't in a good negotiating position with DTS license pricing now that their entire PlayBar customer base is screaming for it.
    Contributor I
    June 17, 2013
    If i could, i would give another +1 (or +10'000) for this feature. Is anybody out there? Is there any information on this? It drives me crazy to hear the difference between a movie with DD5.1 audio (i still have 3 or 4) and the pseudo surround after downmixing DTS to stereo. Since i bought playbar with the full 5.1 units (3 month ago) i have viewed 2 (twoo) movies, very disappointing.
    Contributor I
    June 17, 2013
    I know this has been mentioned here before - but it really leaves me speechless, every time I think about it: Panasonic DMP-BD77 Blu-ray player ($50.00) - does full DTS decoding (EVERY blu-ray player does, no matter how cheap) Sonos Playbar 5.1 system ($2,000.00) - no DTS decoding, because Sonos doesn't want to pay for the license...
    Lyricist II
    June 18, 2013
    Add another vote to this, its a must, a complete no brainer. Think there are lots in my boat who have researched and want to buy, but are holding off. Any further update from Sonos?