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User973639
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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      User850653
      Lyricist I
      July 1, 2013
      Playbar support PLS! Waiting for it to add a couple of Play:3 to my system
      Henrik Achton
      Lyricist I
      July 1, 2013
      The only reason for me, NOT buying this. When DTS is up and running, you got an instant buyer!
      schmudi
      Lyricist III
      July 2, 2013
      The only reason for me, NOT buying this. When DTS is up and running, you got an instant buyer!
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      RO53BEN
      RO53BEN
      Enthusiast II
      July 2, 2013
      John M (Official Rep) 4 months ago We've marked this topic Under Consideration.
      I am no longer active on these forums, DM me if you have a question, I'd be happy to help.
      Treach
      Lyricist I
      July 3, 2013
      Sonos your products on the whole are of a high standard and feature rich but not incorporating DTS in to a home Cinema kit seems a little short-sighted. DTS has been a stable in any home cinema for 10 years+ so come on and play the game and get your product up to spec pronto
      Niklas_7
      Lyricist I
      July 4, 2013
      Hi, this lack of support - no DTS - makes me gonna wait until buying this product. Please add this support asap
      JohnD_1
      Enthusiast I
      July 5, 2013
      The number of comments on this issue has now almost reached 500 users. If we assume that all of these are owners of the playbar AND, as dts 5.1 is the problem, we can also assume they will have additional play 3 units and a sub. All 500 users have spent then around £1700 which represents £850,000 of revenue for Sonos. Each of these 500 users have probably told at least one other person of their dissatisfaction with Sonos, who then tell others and so on. How much revenue are Sonos losing by not addressing the problem. As we have seen no positive remarks or response on this I can only conclude that they have no interest in customer satisfaction or the potential damage this issue could have to their future business.
      crogs
      Lyricist III
      July 6, 2013
      Just designed and built a corner wall with a fireplace and have to finalize what I'm doing with the speakers as space is limited. For the premium Sonos charges (really don't get the price of a Connect for what it offers), this was not really well thought out at all. If it was licensing costs, you all should be shot. If your wireless network chokes on the more intensive DTS signal, well you should've thought of that before you brought it to market. For what you charge and how you market, the idea that this is even a discussion is just abysmal. Personally, I'd rather see a Connect 3ch amp, and let me pick my own front three speakers or slave 3ch soundbar along with my own sub. Much more flexible over the long haul. Also solves the separation issue too.
      Voodoo
      Lyricist I
      July 9, 2013
      When bandwith really is the problem, I wonder if it is possible to downgrade the incoming dts signal to a lesser dd 5.1 signal by the playbar itself? An actual statement of Sonos would be great!
      Christian_44
      Contributor I
      July 10, 2013
      When bandwith really is the problem, I wonder if it is possible to downgrade the incoming dts signal to a lesser dd 5.1 signal by the playbar itself? An actual statement of Sonos would be great!
      DTS "downsample" to DD51 would me okay for me! No sound is just….. dumb.
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