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Hello everyone!

Ive recently bought the Arc Ultra, Sub Gen 4 and 2x ERA 300s and love the sound and sleek system design. Its fantastic!

However, I was shocked to find that i cannot play my UHD Blu-Rays with DTS-X and DTS-HD MA audio.

While i appreciate there are licensing costs associated with the formats, let the CUSTOMERS decide if they want it. Add a $10 or $20 one time fee which customers can pay to “activate” DTS if they want it.

This is supposed to be a premium soundbar, but only supports Dolby…. its extremely odd.

Would love peoples thoughts and if there is planned DTS integration (beyond DTS 5.1 which is dated!)

Many thanks

J

What’s a “diffuser” and why would an image format like 4K have any relation to a sound format like DTS?

Hello everyone, I find your discussion very interesting because clearly I thought that DTS Master HD at least on the ARC Ultra would be a reality via update. However I know that we can read our favorite movies that are in DTS Master HD in PCM 7.1 but when I launch a movie in DTS Master HD I have no sound coming out nothing it does not switch to PCM 7.1.

So what do you think it comes from the Arc Ultra or my diffuser which is not 4K?

You need a dvd player that converts dts into PCM multichannel. 
 

UB820 does this. However multichannel PCM sounds really bad on the arc system. Inconsistent volume levels and overall not very good. Sonos has never tried aiding this. 

What’s a “diffuser” and why would an image format like 4K have any relation to a sound format like DTS?

I'm still using a 50" FHD Plasma as a diffuser, I thought it was related.

Hello everyone, I find your discussion very interesting because clearly I thought that DTS Master HD at least on the ARC Ultra would be a reality via update. However I know that we can read our favorite movies that are in DTS Master HD in PCM 7.1 but when I launch a movie in DTS Master HD I have no sound coming out nothing it does not switch to PCM 7.1.

So what do you think it comes from the Arc Ultra or my diffuser which is not 4K?

You need a dvd player that converts dts into PCM multichannel. 
 

UB820 does this. However multichannel PCM sounds really bad on the arc system. Inconsistent volume levels and overall not very good. Sonos has never tried aiding this. 

I'm sorry to hear that so it doesn't help my case if it's not optimal as the DTS Master HD originally is. I don't have a 4K player just a Shield TV Pro. So basically if I made backup copies of my DVDs or Blu Rays to prevent my discs from deteriorating I wouldn't be able to play them if they have DTS Master HD via the Shield TV Pro is that right? I'll definitely need a 4K player like the one you're telling me about?

Ah, right. You meen the screen. I never heard the word “diffuser” used for it - but English is not my native language. I also own a Shield and use the last 19 version of Kodi to play DVD/BD .iso’s (I can’t get the newer 20 version to play .iso’s). Kodi can translate DTS to Dolby Digital. See the “Passthrough output device” settings, mentioned on https://kodi.wiki/view/Settings/System/Audio

Ah, right. You meen the screen. I never heard the word “diffuser” used for it - but English is not my native language. I also own a Shield and use the last 19 version of Kodi to play DVD/BD .iso’s (I can’t get the newer 20 version to play .iso’s). Kodi can translate DTS to Dolby Digital. See the “Passthrough output device” settings, mentioned on https://kodi.wiki/view/Settings/System/Audio

It's not my native language either, I'm French. And clearly your nickname is the first thing to which it is to the great Sebastien Loeb. But to return to what interests us here. I thought that all the settings were still good on my Kodi that I had adjusted before with my amp. But maybe I need to see other settings thanks to your link. Because if it can transform the DTS into Dolby that would be good, that it passes me the DTS Master HD into Dolby TrueHD. On the other hand, I think that my Television will pose a problem because when I launch a 4K file, the image lags like crazy when it is a DTS Master HD as a soundtrack. If it is Atmos or DD+ it goes well.

There’s a French connection to my nickname, yes (although I’m Dutch). It alludes to my first cars. And my avatar picture was shot on vacation in Normandy…..

The TV could be busy trying to decode DTS (to PCM 2.0 normally) . If you could get the Shield to do the decoding to DD your TV would not have to.

There’s a French connection to my nickname, yes (although I’m Dutch). It alludes to my first cars. And my avatar picture was shot on vacation in Normandy…..

The TV could be busy trying to decode DTS (to PCM 2.0 normally) . If you could get the Shield to do the decoding to DD your TV would not have to.

Oh yes I really like your country even if I haven't had the opportunity to go there yet. I like this freedom that we don't have in France on many points. Not having the EARC on my TV, I go through the HD FURY Arcana system and it is it that decodes the sounds. And great as a first car, my little brother had a tuned 205 and my father had a DS3 Sebastien Loeb.

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