A/V Sync

If indeed the TV is having an issue (which I think we've established?), then you're going to have issues with the sound from your Apple TV and Bluray player, since they're not connected directly to your optical switch, and the sound will be going through that extra processing on the TV. That's why I'm recommending the HDMI switch, which would strip the audio from all three devices (the DirecTV, the Apple TV, and the Bluray player) before it reaches the TV set.

But, it won't provide you the audio from that/those internal TV app(s). So yea, that's not perfect either, but is there any reason why you can't use the Apple TV to stream anything that would normally be on the internal apps?

One thing to remember.....I'm just a guy on the internet. I won't represent myself as having all the answers, I'm just responding from my own perspective. But I will refund you every penny you've paid me, if I'm incorrect 🙂

Haha, I wont pay you more than you deserve, don't worry. I tested the other sources and they all play great through the TV, There's something about the audio from DirecTV that for some reason Sony doesn't handle properly, so they're the only outlier. I will eventually write this up more precisely and post again on here with Sonos, and also with Sony and DirecTV. It just doesn't make sense to em still to have to go through this. But thanks to you for motivating me to look for a solution. Hopefully I have one. The first of a few optical switches arrive today from Amazon.

Now that's confusing. Have you tried, perchance, just changing the HDMI port that the DirecTV is connected to? I can't think of why it would handle Dolby Digital from one source any different than Dolby Digital from any other source. i.e. Dolby Digital is just Dolby Digital, there's no variability. The only thing that would make sense to me is if the port itself handled things differently. Maybe it's an HDMI-ARC thing? Although from what I know about that, it shouldn't make any difference either. I'm perplexed.

I'll look forward to your results, then. As diagrammed, they should work. As far as I can tell 🙂

Stay tuned ,,,

Hi howie_s

I found the switch in the link to be a very good investment especially with lip-sync issues and multiple HDMI sources. You can connect 4 HDMI sources to one HDMi-out to TV; as well as their respective optical ports to a single Optical-out (if desired but not required) to a Playbar/Playbase/Beam. It also has it's own remote. https://octavainc.com/hdmi-switch-hd41arc/

Cheers!