Roku tells customers it is unable to strike a deal with YouTube

Re:Roku tells customers it is unable to strike a deal with Y... by pier25 on Thursday October 21, 2021 @12:11PM (#28946630)

I also bought an ATV recently and I'm very happy with it.

I still use an Nvidia Shield for Plex though. The ATV is great for streaming platforms, but lacks HDMI audio passthrough which is essential for watching hi quality BluRay rips on a home theater.

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Re:Roku tells customers it is unable to strike a deal with Y... by lotsofpulp on Friday October 22, 2021 @06:28AM (#28955502)

I do not know if this is what you mean, but the new Apple TV 4K has HDMI ARC/eARC:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207117

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Re:Roku tells customers it is unable to strike a deal with Y... by pier25 on Friday October 22, 2021 @01:45PM (#28960227)

It's not that.

ARC/eARC is about the TV sending audio from HDMI devices to another HDMI port where your receiver/soundbar is connected.

HDMI audio passthrough is a feature that allows apps to send any raw encoded audio signal "as is" via the HDMI port (eg: Dolby, DTS, etc) to your receiver that will do the decoding.

The ATV does not support DTS or TrueHD, hence to output audio with those codecs, it needs to be decoded and converted on the fly to a supported format like PCM. Unfortunately this produces all sort of issues (sync, volume, etc).

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