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2018-04-02, 15:20
(This post was last modified: 2018-04-02, 15:24 by wrxtasy.)
The Apple TV has a Dolby Audio licence.
There are options in tvOS settings to re-encode everything to 5.1 Dolby Digital if you only have a DD capable TV / AVR / Soundbar and want 5.1 Netflix or Amazon Video audio.
If using MrMC or the Infuse Apps you can decode 7.1 HD audio to lossless 7.1 LPCM for no loss in audio quality.
The only thing it cannot do is passthrough Atmos or DTS:X audio - you lose 3D spacial audio Metadata when losslessly decoding to LPCM.
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Are there any drawbacks using the Vero 4K? 10bit 4K HVEC HDR working properly? Any drawbacks? I am thinking of replacing my NUC6CAYH to get HDR. The price is right but the Vero4k only have 100mbit ethernet, god knows if this will be a limiting factor in the future. I am usually streaming from my NAS and the highest bitrate I could find on my NAS is 45Mb/s. The same time the hardware is rather old but it seems to be doing the job. I dont need 3D either and I despise apple.
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bug in tvOS 11.3, everyone knows about it.
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Hi guys.
Thanks for all the shared information.
I just have a couple of questions before spending a few bucks on hardware.
I'm about to buy the ATV4K to stream my local ripped Blu-Rays (including 4K HDR10 content) from a NAS to a Sony 4K TV, and I think I might need to upgrade my receiver as well since it's an oldie Sony that works with DD and DTS only (through optical).
As far as I understand, if I keep my current receiver ATV4K would be re-encoding audio as DD 5.1 (losing quality since it's doing a compression of an already compressed track) and it would passthrough my TV (checked, passthrough DD 5.1 work on my TV) to the receiver via optical.
Would it make sense to get a new Denon S530BT or S930H? Do you know if those would be able to get the lossless PCM from the ATV4K and improve the overall SQ of my current setup?
Thanks again an in advance for all the help you can provide to this newbie.