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  • Review: Sonos Arc is the Dolby Atmos companion your Apple TV 4K needs

    blatzmanblatzman
    I have a Sonos Arc and a 2018 TCL 6 series I bought new last month that has Atmos pass through.  The Atmos pass through does not work with the Apple TV 4K. 
    The signal that the Apple TV sends (LPCM) is not compatible with Atmos or Atmos pass through. Because my TV doesn’t do Atmos natively I don’t have the option to enable Atmos on Apple TV 4K. I do get Atmos from the built in apps via Roku (Vudu and the Dolby app, but not Apple TV app) and I can also get Atmos from the amazon fire Tv stick 4K (prime video). 
    I know I’m actually getting Atmos via the Atmos logo in the Sonos app. 
    Why Sonos didn’t include an additional HDMI input is beyond me. Many people have better and more expensive TVs (LG OLED) that are incompatible as well. Sonos could have done right by their customer. Instead they expect everyone to have or upgrade to a new tv in order to get the most notable feature of this new sound bar. Guess I’ll have to hope everyone updates their Roku or Fire TV apps to be compatible with Atmos and solve Sonos’s problem. 
    StrangeDays