Sonos Playbase Nears Release

This looks to just be a playbar repacked into a squashed and stretched play 5 housing.
Very disappointing really - no apparent innovation or attempts to rectify the mistakes of the past (hdmi arc/dts or other codecs) or move with the times.

Oh I agree. To release this now with no hdmi connectivity or DTS support in 2017 is mind blowing beyond belief. I think even DTS HD formats also carry DTS signal too but am not sure.
I genuinely can't wait to hear why Sonos think it's not required in an audio device designed for playing audio with a video source.

My one and only TV (I don't watch a lot) is a 42" LCD. The Playbase would be a perfect match. Unfortunately, I already have a Playbar, which sits rather awkwardly in front of the TV, which I had to raise up a bit to clear the Playbar.

Don't care much about DTS, HDMI and whatnot. Frankly, I find that the overwhelming sound of so many movies from the past decade or more is an attempt to make up for awful scripts. The sound is so overbearing at the theater, I have no desire to duplicate it at home.

Give me great dialog and acting, without all the noise, and I'm a happy moviegoer. All About Eve, which is coming again to the big screen in March, is a superb example of what I'm talking about. Best. Movie. Ever. But I am, no doubt, in the minority of movie lovers.

Not alone at all. Although I enjoy a modern blockbuster as much as anyone, my favorite films are the classics; Casablanca, On the Waterfront, Philadelphia Story, It Happened One Night, etc. and I insist that all be seen (heard) in the original mono, even though I have a fancy surround sound system. Artist intent is artist intent.

Not a minority, but maybe an age thing?! I even find so many of the reviews of today to be overhyped and the movie almost never meets the created expectations; a recent example is LA LA Land. Pleasant enough, but, IMO, forgotten in a short while. Unlike the named Casablanca. Or even The Band Wagon. To pick a French example, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg.

It isn't about the tech.

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None whatsoever 🙂

DTS_WLAN is a measurement on Digital Transmission Systems (DTS). Perhaps the leaked pictures are just placeholder images, so there's a tiny chance the connections shown are not genuine. 😉

I would suspect the images as many as seen are legit but I would say the article giving specs may be suspect. I guess we will find out soon enough.

Digital Transmission Systems is something the FCC has regulatory oversight of. Dedicated To Sound isn't, just as Dolby isn't. This report has nothing to do with dts multichannel Audio.