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satish040
Contributor I
April 14, 2019
Question

Sonos amp eARC support

Hi All,

Was looking forward to buy Sonos AMP. Hence wanted to verify if the HDMI on it supports eARC or just ARC. eARC is important for me since I am planning to connect to TV. eARC as I see provides Lip sync support on HDMI.

Thanks,
Satish.
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      Ken_Griffiths
      Ken_Griffiths
      April 14, 2019
      I understand HDMI-eARC is backward compatible, so it should work with HDMI-ARC Devices.
      satish040Author
      Contributor I
      April 14, 2019
      Yes it is backward compatible, but without eARC Lip sync support is not standard and TV manufactures may not support Lip sync feature on plain ARC.
      Ken_Griffiths
      Ken_Griffiths
      April 14, 2019
      Ah I see, let’s hope the TV manufacturers go onto implement the standard as you hope, as the implementation of HDMI-ARC seems to vary across some products.

      Personally I would choose to go for the Amp and try it out, as Sonos do have quite a good no quibble returns policy, if you are not happy with it for ANY reason. So customers can’t really lose anything by seeing if it works with their current hardware.
      Airgetlam
      Airgetlam
      April 15, 2019
      I don't believe there's anything in the Sonos marketing material about the Sonos Amp supporting eARC.

      I suppose at some point, if they could do it as a software upgrade, they might, but right now, there's no indication that they do.
      Bruce
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