Destination Moon
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So I'm taking this to mean that I can wire up my old ARC set exactly as a new eARC set and only forfeight streaming lossless ATMOS - which isn't available anyway? Doing this will let me ditch the HDMI switch running the input into the bar, and let me use the TV's input selector instead
I suppose strictly speaking they could - 192kHz, 24 bit, 8 channel lossless audio needs around 33mbps and 12 channel around 55mbps. That’s before you add 4K video which needs say 25mbps. So lossless ATMOS and 4K from an app will need at least 80mbps per stream. The world and their internet connections aren’t ready for that I would suggest
downloading and playing offline over HDMI could work of course. Streaming though is a bridge too far for the infrastructure available to the vast majority of consumers. The streaming app providers wouldn’t be able to cope with the complaints about how their app won’t deliver the promised 4K and lossless ATMOS film. The fact the customer has a 25/10 internet connection that only works at full speed in off peak hours where they live, wouldn’t prevent said customers complaining....... it happens now with far lesser bandwidth requirements.......
So I'm taking this to mean that I can wire up my old ARC set exactly as a new eARC set and only forfeight streaming lossless ATMOS - which isn't available anyway? Doing this will let me ditch the HDMI switch running the input into the bar, and let me use the TV's input selector instead