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For those of you who may have HomePods (not the minis) around, you can pair 2 HomePods into a stereo unit and with the just released AppleTV 4K use eARC to connect to your PS5. Nice solution given cost of totally new eARC especially if you already have some HomePods around
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How does it sound? Does Atmos work?
ID: gyzbkn7ID: gyzfg19Atmos is just a format. It's just stepping it down to stereo.
ID: gyza42kHow could Atmos work with only 2 speakers ?
ID: gyzgvw6Absurd overengineering. The bottom of the speaker is dotted with tweeters to cover the speaker’s full circumfrence, and it does analysis on its input and output with microphones and an iPhone processor.
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BOOM! Thanks for verification!
I should be receiving my new ATV4K any minute now. Excited to hear my HomePod stereo pair output TLoUP2!
EDIT: Hurry up, UPS…
ID: gyzamlgBeen waiting for my adult ice cream truck (AKA: UPS/FedEx/Amazon) all day. It’s got my Apple TV and iPad Pro in it…hurry the fack up!
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To be clear, for eARC, you plug into your TV's HDMI 2.1 port (for me for Sony X900H is HDMI 3) with 48gbps HDMI cable and then my PS5 (HDMI 4) is able to pipe audio through TV:
ID: gyz8s8zHow’s the latency?
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YES DADDY!! This is a dream come true.
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Not sure I follow this, maybe I'm being simple. So atv > tv > ps5, and you use the earc on the atv for audio on your ps5? Surely earc is only supported on atv when it's connected and active over hdmi?
ID: gyz38etFor my Sony X900H I use HDMI 3 as eARC (make sure to use HDMI 2.1 cable with 48gbps, I like the Monoprice one myself) and set up as:
All cords involved should be 48gbps to avoid stutter (initially mine didn't work and then I subbed out a ~10gbps HDMI cord with 48gbps)ID: gyziv29Well you won't need the 48gbps unless your transferring 8k or 4k 120hz, and for modes like VRR and such like. Earc works at hdmi 2.0b, as long as your cable has high speed ethernet. So yer still struggling to see what your saying about how you configure your components in what order. Can you help?
ID: gyz0ujyRight. Can I plug my PS5 to an Apple TV input and passthrough to the tv? (PS5 > ATV4k > TV)
ID: gyz1ug3I don't think so! Normally it's atv > tv and ps5 > tv seperately, then tv > audio device on earc
ID: gyzxyd1That’s not how it works. eARC allows a device to say, “oh, besides the video/audio data I’m sending you, Mr. TV, can you send me a copy of all the audio output from whatever source is playing?” This is used for things like Sonos sound bars that connect to the TV over HDMI (but, obviously don’t provide useful video).
Apparently Apple has added the option for the new Apple TV to present itself as an audio output device even when it’s “off” (or, at least, isn’t the device currently selected for viewing). So, your TV takes video/audio from your PS5 on HDMI2 and copies the audio to your Apple TV on HDMI1, which then plays it through the connected HomePods.
Shame Apple canceled those HomePods a few weeks ago.
I’m guessing the new AppleTV and that feature have been sitting, completed, in the new products pipeline for a looong time.
ID: gyznynhNo. Apple TV’s only have 1 HDMI port.
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Yeah but the airplay latency is going to be enormous. You really should invest in dedicated speakers or even just a good soundbar
ID: gyzo3euIt’s not using airplay for this but rather a direct connection to the HomePods. From the few users on the Apple TV sub the latency isn’t a problem.
ID: gyzosk6A lot of people are insanely oblivious to latency. Plus there's no way that I know of for the Apple TV to be using anything other than Airplay for this, so I'd like to see a source on that claim.
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As an apple user with almost every some product in the home, good luck finding anyone else with two homepods to even think about doing this.
ID: gyz8pjfID: gyz953cIdk who down votes a fact. They still have them in stock and cancelled the product months ago lol. The cost to performance of having two homepods vs any other sound system is abysmal.
ID: gyzagdaMe!
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What about 2 minis?
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So I would need the new Apple TV to do eARC?
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And to this day I still can't get Disney+ 4k even though there was a 4k update to it on ps5. The streaming qaulity settings still only go to HD.. meanwhile, Amazon Prime and Apple have 4K. Get your shit together Disney!
引用元:https://www.reddit.com/r/PS5/comments/nhz9n0/appletv_4k_new_version_with_earc_and_2_homepods/
Yup, I still can't comprehend how 2 HomePods output Dolby Atmos, but somehow they do. I am so curious where Apple is going next now that they stopped making HomePods