Hello, I'm facing strange audio issue on my Sony KD-49XG9005, wonder if someone experienced something similar.
I have 2nd gen Sonos Beam connected to HDMI-ARC and NVIDIA SHIELD TV PRO (2019) in other HDMI port on the TV. Shield is the default input, I don't use anything else. I'm using Shield's remote (and HDMI-CEC) to turn everything on and off.
When I turn my stuff on, the TV sends audio in stereo PCM to Sonos Beam. I have to turn it off and on again to get Dolby Digital to Beam. It seems to be happening only after the system was off/sleeping for a period of time.
Shield has Dolby audio processing turned on.
TV has following audio settings:
Audio output -> Digital audio out -> Auto 1
Input-specific Sound settings -> Dolby Digital Plus output -> Dolby Digital Plus (for both HDMI ports used).
Can't find anything else that would be related to it. Is there some settings I might have missed? It's a bit annoying to do this on/off/on to get the desired audio output. Thank you!
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You could try setting your TV’s digital output format to Passthrough or Bitstream, if you have those options. You can also try unplugging your TV from power for at least a couple of minutes.
If those steps don’t help, I can only suggest contacting Sony for further assistance.
I hope this helps.
Thanks for your feedback
As I previously mentioned I control everything with Shield’s remote, i.e. it’s the Shield waking up other devices. I found out that if I use TV remote to turn on the TV and let it wake up Shield & Beam then the the TV sends audio in Dolby Digital as expected. I’ll check with Sony on that.
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That’s pretty surprising - are you sure that’s the case? I would repeat the test quite a few times to be sure.
I’m glad to hear you’re on the path to a fix, however!
Looks like I got the problem fixed - I replaced both HDMI cables (from Shield and from Beam) with identical HDMI 2.1 spec cables, did factory reset on the TV and I haven’t seen the problem since.
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Glad to hear it! Thanks for updating the thread!
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