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HomePod Wireless Audio Sync recommended for Homepod Home Theater?
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Completely agree with you.
As for the picture settings, remember to input them again on the new tv set when it arrives.
Earc started to work. But it was a bit of a fiddle around with settings. I think in HDMI3 the Speakers needs to be set as HDMI sound system or TV speakers and earc to automatic.
One of those cases when it just works and you don’t touch it.
Thank you for all your help
Can you do a test for me?. Could you use the Disney+app of your smart tv, play something with Atmos (ie the mandalorian), and test if the sound through the Homepods is better than from the apple tv disney app? (which does not support Atmos)?.
Thank you.
Update:
Disabled earc in ATV as it messed and unpaired Homepods yesterday.:S
Everything else works, no lag, ambilight works.
Honestly, I don't want to tap preinstalled TV apps and do double log in. As you said still waiting for Disney to roll their sleeves and give us the update.
Disabled earc in ATV as it messed and unpaired Homepods yesterday.:S
Everything else works, no lag, ambilight works.
Honestly, I don't want to tap preinstalled TV apps and do double log in. As you said still waiting for Disney to roll their sleeves and give us the update.
Update:
Disabled earc in ATV as it messed and unpaired Homepods yesterday.:S
Everything else works, no lag, ambilight works.
Honestly, I don't want to tap preinstalled TV apps and do double log in. As you said still waiting for Disney to roll their sleeves and give us the update.
So sorry to hear that!. Well, in all fairness the feature (earc9 is still labeled as beta.
So you are now using the Homepods only for the apple tv apps with earc off, correct?
Earc is enabled in HDMI 2 as default. Tested couple of Dolby Vision+Atmos videos to see the quality and the Atmos sound.
The combo with Ambilight is just WOW.
SO to summarise, the Atmos works as long player/app has it enabled. TV+ content sounds great and no lag.
The thing that bugs me now is after TV software update ( the logo changed to new Dolby Vision when playing content) it sometimes takes 2 restarts of the Dolby Vision video to start playing. I suspect this is a Android/TV software bug as it was working OK before the update with the same ATV settings. Thoughts on this? :S
What is your setup at home B/D?
Well, my current setup is an LG OLED C8 (2018) with an Apple TV 4K (2017), and two original homepods paired in stereo.
My TV support arc (not earc), but since my Apple TV is from 2017 i cant use the ARC feature with the Homepods. That does not matter to me because I only use the Apple TV to watch content.
I have never used the internal apps of my TV (in fact i have it disconnected from the internet and manually update its firmware via USB), only the apple tv apps.
The Homepods set as the default audio output of the Apple TV 4K work great. No lag, Atmos support (except in Disney+), good sound.
My TV support arc (not earc), but since my Apple TV is from 2017 i cant use the ARC feature with the Homepods. That does not matter to me because I only use the Apple TV to watch content.
I have never used the internal apps of my TV (in fact i have it disconnected from the internet and manually update its firmware via USB), only the apple tv apps.
The Homepods set as the default audio output of the Apple TV 4K work great. No lag, Atmos support (except in Disney+), good sound.
Sound like a great set up.
Have you seen my comment about Dolby Vision bug? :S
Yeah. I have no idea. Certainly it sound like an Android TV bug.