[Tinwarble]

Quick question, I need to buy a soundbar for the TV (samsung 4k 9800) that I have my shield connected to.
My source files are both dolby and dts.

Im trying to find an audio solution that works well for the shield, tv and sound bar. So far it seems that everything needs to be downsampled to ac3 - 2.0.

Does anyone have any suggestions as to what native formats the TV and soundbar should support ? I dont think my tv will pass bitstream and it appears that the shield doesnt either, but what about PCM?

Thanks
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I don't know where you get that from, but the Shield does support pass-through for AC-3, DTS, DTS-HD, True-HD, Atmos and DTS:X.

I can't give you a recommendation for a soundbar, but it would be best to find one with HDMI in & out and since you have a 4K TV, one that has HDMI 2.0/HDCP2.2.