2021-01-02, 22:03
The question is, what you want and what you need... 
This may be relevant if you want to use a Shield for Kodi and bitstream highest audio:
Has the new TV an eARC HDMI port? Is it possible to passthrough audio from the Shield to the new TV and then via eARC to the Sonos Arc? The Sonos Arc needs an eARC Port from the TV for TrueHD (Atmos).
This may be relevant if you want to use a TV for Kodi:
Most, if not all, TVs have only 100MBit Ethernet. This can lead into problems with high bit rate remuxes. I read that some guys had a perfect working TV wifi, which was faster than 100MBit Ethernet.
If you only want to stream from the internet, 100MBit is enough. You won’t get TrueHD (Atmos) from Internet streams, highest given internet audio format is DD Plus (Atmos).
I have the following setup:
• LG OLED65C97LA
• Nvidia Shield TV Pro 2019 (connected via HDMI1 of the TV)
• Sonos 5.1.2 Arc, Sub, 2 Symfonisk Lamps (connected via eARC HDMI2 of the TV)
With the latest updates everything works as expected. HDR mkv files work fine, Dolby Vision mkv is early work-in-progress. TrueHD (Atmos) works great, and the different DTS-HD formats come up as PCM/LPCM in the Sonos App since one of the last Sonos updates. The Sonos system doesn’t support DTS, Dolby only.
I don’t use any streaming apps from the Shield or the TV itself, only Kodi.
If you have any further questions do not hesitate to ask.
Regards Hoppel
This may be relevant if you want to use a Shield for Kodi and bitstream highest audio:
Has the new TV an eARC HDMI port? Is it possible to passthrough audio from the Shield to the new TV and then via eARC to the Sonos Arc? The Sonos Arc needs an eARC Port from the TV for TrueHD (Atmos).
This may be relevant if you want to use a TV for Kodi:
Most, if not all, TVs have only 100MBit Ethernet. This can lead into problems with high bit rate remuxes. I read that some guys had a perfect working TV wifi, which was faster than 100MBit Ethernet.
If you only want to stream from the internet, 100MBit is enough. You won’t get TrueHD (Atmos) from Internet streams, highest given internet audio format is DD Plus (Atmos).
I have the following setup:
• LG OLED65C97LA
• Nvidia Shield TV Pro 2019 (connected via HDMI1 of the TV)
• Sonos 5.1.2 Arc, Sub, 2 Symfonisk Lamps (connected via eARC HDMI2 of the TV)
With the latest updates everything works as expected. HDR mkv files work fine, Dolby Vision mkv is early work-in-progress. TrueHD (Atmos) works great, and the different DTS-HD formats come up as PCM/LPCM in the Sonos App since one of the last Sonos updates. The Sonos system doesn’t support DTS, Dolby only.
I don’t use any streaming apps from the Shield or the TV itself, only Kodi.
If you have any further questions do not hesitate to ask.
Regards Hoppel
