2019-02-02, 14:09
(2019-02-02, 12:27)farhanito Wrote: So excited that I can get Atmos with kodi 18 and this Netflix addon.If I were a betting man I wouldn't put money on it.
Any chance Amazon will add lossless HD audio passthrough capability to this thing?
The only real sources of HD Audio (DTS HD MA/Dolby True HD) are Blu-ray rips, and Amazon won't have any business need to support playback of that content. Their streaming service, and the content they own and provide as part of it, isn't in HD Audio so they have no reason to develop their FireTV OS to support it.
In Amazon business terms - the Fire TV devices are purely there to get you to subscribe to OTT services (ideally Prime Video). No OTT service currently wants to allocate 4Mbs+ to audio streams...
I expect the same rationale is behind the Apple TV 4K, Google Chromecast and Roku devices not supporting HD Audio passthrough/bitstreaming either.