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MSmithSonos
Contributor II
June 27, 2018

Sonos...you're killing me with your lack of HDMI support

Man, I was so ready to go full in on Sonos. Just bought a new house that I'm moving into shortly and was ready to outfit it with Sonos 5.1 in the living room and Play 5's and Play 1's in other rooms. Then I find out poor support for new Dolby formats....tough pill to swallow, but fine. Then I find out no outdoor speakers....grrr...annoying but fine. But then I find out there's no HDMI. Gahh...What? Then I hear about the Beam and think they've addressed the issue. But now reviews are coming out and it seems it's an entry level product and not a Playbar equivalent. Why are they being so stubborn? When they announced the Beam they should have also announced new versions of the Playbar/Playbase/Connect with HDMI support as well.

Sonos, take my money please!!! But you can't have this kind of dough when the product seems destined to become outdated due to it's lack of support of modern standards (arguably it's already there).

Sorry for the vent. Just was really hoping to finally be able to go all in with them, but guess I can't. I have to find a competitor I guess. So annoying. I hope management reads these forums...you're losing potential customers.
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      johnzena
      Lyricist III
      November 6, 2018
      No. You need a third party device to do the correction but it is only estimating. It's called forward error correction.

      Forward error correction. ... The central idea is the sender encodes the message in a redundant way by using an error-correcting code (ECC). The redundancy allows the receiver to detect a limited number of errors that may occur anywhere in the message, and often to correct these errors without re-transmission.

      I know in the beginning there was no error correcting code. The error correction devices just tried to do it on their own.

      HDMI can actually compare what was sent to what was recieved. Thus having it retransmitted.
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      jgatie
      jgatie
      November 7, 2018
      So forward error correction is not error correction? Funny naming convention they got there. :8
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      Fantspak
      Fantspak
      Avid Contributor I
      April 25, 2019
      I WILL PAY 2.000€ for a New SONOS PLAYBASE HDMI-ARC AND DD+ (Atmos) COMPATIBLE and a PAIR OF ATMOS SURROUND SPEAKERS! Please Sonos, Listen potentially new customers!
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