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protobiont

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Is anyone else getting Dolby digital from amazon prime now? I haven’t done extensive testing, but season 5 episode 1 of The Americans is showing up as Dolby digital, whereas the last episode of season 4 only streams in 2.1 stereo.

I’ve seen several articles that say the prime app only does 2.1 on the appleTV.

I’m using the Apple TV 4K, if it matters.
 
I just tested Spectre and it's playing in 5.1.

Didn't even realize they fixed it as I can't stand using that app. Lately, it feels like Amazon and YouTube are in a contest to see who can make the shi**iest tvOS app possible. o_O
 
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protobiont said:
Is anyone else getting Dolby digital from amazon prime now? I haven’t done extensive testing, but season 5 episode 1 of The Americans is showing up as Dolby digital, whereas the last episode of season 4 only streams in 2.1 stereo.

I’ve seen several articles that say the prime app only does 2.1 on the appleTV.

I’m using the Apple TV 4K, if it matters.
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I don't often use Prime, but yes, I've seen Dolby Digital working on my Apple TV 4K. Initially it didn't, but they fixed that at some point a few months ago.
 
It's not complete yet. Some content is 5.1 but a lot other stuff isn't yet.
 
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They are working on getting their catalog phased into DD.
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Where do you find such information? I did a google search and couldn’t find anything except older articles from December about how prime did not support 5.1 on the Apple TV.
 
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Where do you find such information? I did a google search and couldn’t find anything except older articles from December about how prime did not support 5.1 on the Apple TV.
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Check this out. Personally my AVR was reporting 5.1 channels in some movies/TV shows since the first release of Amazon Prime. Still the article says that all UHD content is now using 5.1 channels (it should be DD+ 5.1 since that's what I get from the app on my Bravia TV) and as such they appear to me. The other days I was watching a Full HD movies (I think it was "Serenity") and the AVR showed 5.1 for that as well.
 
One example is the show "The Closer". I bought that on amazon a while ago and now I'm watching through all the seasons. When I watch the show on my TV-App (via ARC) or NVidia Shield the Sound is put out in DD 5.1. When I switch to the AppleTV 4K the sound is put out in Stereo. A lot of there Prime-Show already offer 5.1 with the AppleTV 4K but older shows are apparently still being changed over.
 
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One example is the show "The Closer". I bought that on amazon a while ago and now I'm watching through all the seasons. When I watch the show on my TV-App (via ARC) or NVidia Shield the Sound is put out in DD 5.1. When I switch to the AppleTV 4K the sound is put out in Stereo. A lot of there Prime-Show already offer 5.1 with the AppleTV 4K but older shows are apparently still being changed over.
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Seems odd that it would happen on a show by show basis, and that they would repeat it with out 5.1 audio in the first place. But what do I know?
 
6 months on it seems they still haven't fix this?

I recently purchased the ATV4K - its almost perfect if it wasn't for 2.0 sound on AmazonPrime and no 4k on youtube.

I have no idea how Amazon is managing to be so poor. iTunes free 4k upgrades vs Amazon HD only and no 5.1 on ATV4K... Makes no sense. Wish i built my video library through iTunes now.
 
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6 months on it seems they still haven't fix this?

I recently purchased the ATV4K - its almost perfect if it wasn't for 2.0 sound on AmazonPrime and no 4k on youtube.

I have no idea how Amazon is managing to be so poor. iTunes free 4k upgrades vs Amazon HD only and no 5.1 on ATV4K... Makes no sense. Wish i built my video library through iTunes now.
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Absolutely. In the future buddy, buy your films with relative confidence through iTunes - you know then that they'll have Dolby Atmos surround sound from this Autumn along with 4K Dolby Vision etc.
I was horrified when I read Amazon's small print regarding buying film from them. You can ONLY download your purchase a maximum time of TWICE! WHAT!!!!!!!!!! Their clauses were very very off-putting and there is no chance that i'd ever part with my money buying a download from them.
 
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I don’t quite understand what Amazon are doing with their ATV app.

For example, Bosch is UHD, HDR and only 2 channel audio but on the Amazon app on my LG TV it is 5.1.

I don’t think they’re doing themselves any favours but then again, I don’t suppose they give a damn either.

Jason
 
JasonHB said:
I don’t quite understand what Amazon are doing with their ATV app.

For example, Bosch is UHD, HDR and only 2 channel audio but on the Amazon app on my LG TV it is 5.1.

I don’t think they’re doing themselves any favours but then again, I don’t suppose they give a damn either.

Jason
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Have the same issue, Some 5.1 programs come over Apple TV as 5.1 and some as 2.0 And the Apple TV description never says 5.1 but when I pull up the same program using my LGTV app it shows as 5.1 on the description and it is received as 5.1
 
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