You earned a sub for being honest, humble, and correcting your mistakes. This adds to the transparency of any misinformation you might have put out. Shows integrity, who, and what your channels is about.
I been using optic cable for the pass 8 years lol and just not to long ago I find out that optic doesn't pass Dolby and DTS.... just basic 5.1 channel. I was happy to find out that my 8 years old Onkyo AV supported ARC all this time lol. So I reconnected with new HDMI and turn ARC on !! And OMG what a difference!!! Its sounds so much clearer, more effects, more details. Just WOW!! I've been missing alot
I thought an optical cable supports at least 5 channels? I'm really confused about this because I plan on getting E ark to run a 5.1 channel soundbar and I don't even know if I need E arc to do this, Do you know anything about this
The thing is they could have upgraded fiber to support any format but because there is no protection like HDCP they didn't. Fiber easily has the bandwidth for any audio format although they might have had to update it to support it but it could be done.
The detail of your presentations are not only interesting due to a passion for tech, but extremely educational. I've made solid purchases thanks to your in depth reviews and audio expertise. Yourself, Vincent and Caleb are outstanding for Audio and Visual enthusiasts.
@@totallyfrozen Vincent is a professional calibrator and I would say he is a really good expert. His youtube channel is called HDTVtest. You can see Caleb on the channel digital trends and he knows a lot of this stuff as well.
I'm in the market for an eARC AVR now. My TV (LG C9) recently had a firmware update to support eARC. I want all of the sounds available, haha. Thanks for not getting too technical.
Great video man. You're really able to present this confusing information in a digestible manner. Just a recommendation though, if you are intending this to be as informative as possible then I would mention somewhere that if people are planning on upgrading from ARC to eARC then they WILL need to upgrade their HDMI cable as well. I just know so many people won't know to do this and then be utterly lost.
Good info. I think with the advancement in TV displays with OLED, QLED, in 4K, 8K and AI upscaling and what not, I think it makes more sense to plug everything straight into the TV and just have one eARC HDMI connection to an external audio driver like a sound bar or AV receiver. When you run out of HDMI channels on the TV, then we can start using the HDMI ports on the external devices to go up the same eARC bandwidth. For AV Receiver lovers like me, eARC is still not common in them unless you get a flagship model at this point which is a bummer. They should really make eARC more commonly available on AV Receivers. Cheers.
If you're using a fairly modern audio receiver (Denon, Yamaha, etc.) you can overcome a lot of e-ARC issues by simply plugging your devices into the receiver, which will then handle the audio processing, instead of the TV. I.E. I plug my FireStick into a port on my receiver not a port on the TV. Then if the source the FireStick is pulling from has an audio format like ATMOS or DTS: X the receiver, not the TV processes the audio and video sending the video to the TV and the audio directly to my 5.1.2 surround speakers. I use this for all kinds of things including streaming services and my EMBY home server system. If I set the DSP on my Yamaha receiver to "Auto" then I get whatever format the signal is capable of producing though I may have to go into the controls on whatever video source is playing and select say "ATMOS" instead of 5.1.
So what would you suggest if the TV has only ARC but not EARC, the soundbar DOES have an EARC and I'm using an external amplifier, not a reciever or AV reciever that has HDMI input (2) and HDMI output (1)? I also bought a HDMI extractor in hopes that this will help resolve any issues of ARC to EARC.
This is the best explanation I have come across. I really like Chris Majestic and Caleb Dennison, but this video did it for me and has been a great help. I have to explain this stuff as part of my job so I'm very grateful for your help and advice. Thanks Jonah!
Yeah, no. That video has majority of his entire channel's views. That would essentially kill a small channel like this one. He did well enough to post a correction video, much better than what some bigger channels tend to do.
@@marcellomarcucci3348 unless its audio lag arc or earc will do nothing to solve it. The primary purpose of arc is too send audio signals upstream or downstream and to allow your TV to play audio over a single cable to your AV setup.
I saw your previous video. We learn from out mistakes :-) Appreciate your honesty and you deserve 💯 any my subscription, best of luck with your journey in TH-cam
Atmos can only be transmitted through eARC. Devices that only support standard ARC are incapable of transmitting high bitrate audio. In many cases, the device will transcode and/or downmix the signal into something that ARC can support, like EAC3. General rule of thumb, ARC can support up to 5.1 channels of compressed audio. Anything more will require eARC.
To add little clarification as it could probably still confuse someone, yes it is true that eArc can send any uncompressed/lossless audio codec and also quite a few compressed ones, but what you can actually use depends on both side of the connection as they have to support them as well. And there can be a lot of unforeseen caveats in this area. What is obvious is a soundbar side, of course your soundbar will process only codecs it has built in support for. However, the less obvious might be limitation on the TV side as TV might not be able not only to process particular codec itself, but also fail to send some codecs through its eArc implementation despite the fact that eArc itself is perfectly able to handle that format. A very popular example of this from current year is a 2020 line of LG OLEDs (for example 65OLEDCX) who no longer support once very popular DTS sound format and will not only fail to process it in TV, but also will not passthrough DTS over eArc and therefore this format won't work even on DTS supporting soundbar connected to the TV.
I have a TV, Receiver, Soundbar, Playstation console, and Headphones with base station. Question is: What is the procedure for setting them up. Which cables go to which devices? Currently I have the TV's HDMI ARC connected directly to the Receiver's HDMI ARC port, but the Soundbar is connected to the TV via it's optical port and so is the headphone's base station optical to TV's optical via a splitter.
So it can't just be a regular HDMI port it has to say ARC? So like a receiver that has an ARC out if the monitor only has an HDMI port it wouldn't work?
Noob question, I know you mentioned earc from speakers to tv arc. What about if u have a new tv with earc and then the receiver for your 5.1 only has arc…is it the same sort of story, do u lose out and the receiver will compress sounds and won’t be as good if u had earc on both the tv and receiver? TIA
You can get lossless sound if you have a Blu-ray player like Oppo UDP-203. It has internal decoding and Dolby Atmos + DTS- X. I have it and it works great on surround soundbar
I bought the Marantz 1509 well after the 1510 came out, and saved a bundle. The A.R.C. Works Very Well, just watch Apocalypse Now opening with the helicopter wop, wop, whopping around the room - Fantastic! You can't chase new Tech, you'll never catch up. Oh, by the way, I've owned this for years, and Never had a lip sync problem. Jonah, thanks for the unbiased video. Thumbs up brother!
Thanks for the video. After getting a new LG C9 smart TV I was brand new to ARC (or in this case eARC). I'm using that TV with my old Onkyo TX-508 receiver and, for the most part, I got it to work with ARC (the old Onkyo only supports ARC). I have noticed that the audio drops out for a second every once in a while and I'm not sure if that's due to the age of my Onkyo receiver, or if it might be an HDMI cable issue. I did notice occasional drop in the both the audio AND video signal when playing an UHD Blu-Ray via my Xbox One S as well. It prompted me to try getting newer HDMI cables to see if that helped with the HDR content issue. Those haven't arrived yet, so I'm not sure if that would help solve either problem. The cables I'm using now are about 6 years old. Like I said, it's working about 99% of the time. It's just the audio hiccups and the video drop outs on HDR content that are a bit annoying. Just wondering if you had any other advice on what else I might look at to troubleshoot. Even though I got it to work I have a feeling that I might have the connections/settings out of whack. At the moment I have the cable box (HDMI port 1), the Onkyo (HDMI port 2, the eARC-labeled input) and the Xbox (HDMI Port 4) directly connected to the TV. With the old TV, I had the Cablebox connected to the Xbox passthru and that connected to the TV, but I didn't want to have the Xbox on to watch cable anymore. Do you think it would be better to plug the Cablebox and Xbox to the Onkyo inputs and then link that to the TV? Or would it matter? Thanks!
eARC is known to have to issues like this. I think upgrading the cables was a good first move. If you keep having issue, I would definitely try switching the Cable Box and Xbox over to the Receiver to see if that makes a difference. If you keep having issues from there, then it could be due to the age of your receiver. Hope this helps!
Jonah, thanks for these videos. I recently purchased a 2019 75" Samsung QLED. I then waited 2 months for a matching Samsung soundbar. I have issues with the lip syncing with broadcast cable mostly. Netflix is good but the cable really gets out of sorts. I read a few posts about the Samsung soundbars and it seems to be a wide ranging problem with Samsung bars. One person said not to use the ARC HDMI port, to use either a different port or an optical cable. If I scroll through the inputs on the soundbar remote it helps for a little while but eventually goes out again. I will try an update for the soundbar, let me know if you have any input. Thank you, Tim
So this comment is very much late, but I bought a leftover 2019 Samsung Q90R. Bought a Q7CR sound bar. Then most recently a set of HW-Q90R surround left/right but I can’t get them to pair to the sound bar or TV? Please tell me I can connect these?
Thank you so much for putting this up! The ARC turned out to be the key/fault I ended up working through to restore HDMI output from my laptop > Yamaha > speakers.
Thanks for the detailed explanation, you made it so easy to understand . Is there anyway to see the volume level of Sonos arc on tv when connected with hdmi arc/earc. I can’t see the volume level, only visible on the phone app.
I actually just went to my TV and got this working! 1st you’ll need to make sure HDMI CEC is enabled and working. Make sure it can recognize that a Sonos Arc is connected. Then for me, I went to my Vizio TV’s audio settings and enabled “Volume Control Display”. Now the volume shows up on the TV for the Sonos Arc. Hope this helps!
Thanks so much. My Samsung TV has CEC on but can’t show volume control . Doesn’t even give me the option of displaying it on tv. I asked another you tuber Peter P who does extensive testing also confirmed his LG CX couldn’t display volume either .
Denon recently announced their new 2020 AVR models with HDMI 2.1 support. The only issue is that out of all its HDMI ports only one supports 2.1, the rest are 2.0. Its has one 8K dedicated hdmi port. Their explanation is that right now aside from the upcoming nextgen consoles, nothing else content wise is 2.1, and it also would add to the cost of the product if they made all ports full 2.1. They recommend, if you're planning to buy both consoles and want to connect both but AVR only has one hdmi 2.1 port, running hdmi eARC cable from TV to your eARC compatible AVR or Soundbar for audio and running both consoles directly into the TVs hdmi 2.1 ports to get full 2.1 video features. If you plan to only own 1 of the consoles then you dont have an issue and can connect it directly to the 1 hdmi 2.1 port on the AVR. I have an 11.2 setup and so I would have considered these new AVR models but not at that price point for just 1 hdmi 2.1 port. I'll wait next year when hopefully they release 2021 models with full 2.1 support on all hdmi ports, until then, I will run both XSX and PS5 through TV and connect to my AVR via eARC, since my LG C9 TV is hdmi 2.1.
Since it appears you understand the the connections between tv, consoles, and sound system I have a question for you if you don’t mind.. So.. I have a Samsung QLED tv. It has 4, 2.0 HDMI ports and one is ARC (not eARC compatible). Now the new consoles appear to be eARC compatible. I’m stating this because I’m looking into buying a soundbar/sound system that has eARC capabilities (I was looking into the Samsung HW-Q90R 7.1.2 soundbar setup since it’s made for QLEDs). So my question is, would I be able to take advantage of eARC at all with my current tv? My only guess is that I could run the eARC from the Xbox Series X to the soundbar, and then regular HDMI from the soundbar to the tv. So that I’d only be able to take advantage of eARC through my console and not the tv itself. Is this assumption correct? (I’m new to all this). Thank you!
@@bnm1211 correct. You would connect consoles directly into soundbar to get HD Audio. But your TV not having eARC won't get HD Audio like DTS:X or Dolby Atoms. Unless Samsung added eARC to your ARC port via Firmware update like LG did to my C9 TV.
I just got a brand new Denon Ds217, and it has HDMI eArc, and HDMI. It also has Dolby Atmos, but you have to use HDMI eArc .My TV is fairly new, and it has that choice in the setup menu, too. No matter what I did, I couldn't get it to play sound, until I plugged in the Optical, but The Atmos doesn't work with Optical. Thanks for the video. I'm not Tech Ignorant, but normally, everything just works. My receiver had zero problems playing back, with eArc. But, most of the time, we just want a soundbar, with the Sub, for watching TV.
Hi Jonah. I just bought a 2022 LG 55” C2 OLED. I also just purchased a LG sound bar that has Meridian, Dolby Atmos, DTS:X , it’s a 3.1.2ch sound bar. My question is, should I run an optical cable that comes with it, or use a regular HDMI cable, for the best sound? Thanks👍 Mark O.
@@Avril.Lavigne it depends on what devices you have. Are you only hooking up a TV and soundbar because that's really easy. If you're hooking up a TV, full on surround sound, a PC, a few Bluetooth devices, wifi, and Xbox and a cable box, ECT, like me, It's a longer answer! Spoiler alert: HDMI E ark is the newest easiest most future proof way. If money is no object. At the end of the day there's more than one way to skin that cat. And believe me 5.1 Dolby digital is way better than everyone makes it out to be. How important is your budget :) is the real question 🤑
@@Avril.Lavigne if your TV and soundbar are both LG you can actually use the TV speakers and the sound bar combined, at the same time, completely wireless, to get real Dolby Atmos surround sound! Did I mention wireless? LG smart devices sync up together super easy.
I have an LG C1 & just got the Bose 900. (Before seeing this video) sound is great but I am returning the Bose as the audio is out of sync with the TV. I have tried a bunch of settings on both units. Seems I should have got a soundbar with HDMI input, then plugged in the fire stick to this and not use the TV apps? Is that the preferred method, to use the input on the sound bar so sound is direct?
CEC commands are *not* infrared signals. They do, however, take the place of IR signals to control a "slave" device using the "master" remote control (among other things).
At the end of the video. He mentioned that everything turns on after turning it off. It’s because you need to turn off the (Anynet-HDMI+ CEC On the TV so the signals doesn’t go back to the receiver and/or any other external amp like my Emotiva BasX-A3 in my case. You only need to turn it on when watching or using any of the apps on your TV. Like Hulu, Netflix, Prime, TH-cam, Disney +, HBO and so on. For surround sound listening.
Everyone seems to get this wrong. If you have all your devices plugged into a receiver the receiver doesn't send audio to the TV then bring it back to send it through the speakers. That makes no sense 😂 the audio signal is only sent through arc/earc if it is coming from the TV and going to the receiver. If everything is plugged into the receiver then it separates the audio and video signals and sends the audio directly to the speakers while sending the video signal to the TV. I figured this out when I couldn't get my Philips hue lights to sync to music or audio but they worked fine with video. It wasn't working because the receiver wasn't sending an audio signal through earc to the sync box/TV. It was sending the audio direct to my speakers. I actually had to go into the receiver audio output settings and tell it to send audio to the TV aswell as the speakers to get the lights to sync to sound. I would assume it would be the same case for most modern avr systems. The other thing that alot of people are confused by is that you do not need a Dolby Atmos enabled TV to enjoy Dolby Atmos. If you use an avr that is Atmos enabled and your sources like Apple TV fire cube n stuff plugged straight into Ur avr you get Dolby Atmos because it's the avr that deals with the audio it has nothing to do with the TV. Atmos enabled TVs only mean that the TV will send an Atmos signal through arc/earc to a connected receiver for its native apps so you don't need to use an external source.
From the moment you started talking about everything you did wrong (in the sixth video) I did not understand even a single word. I'm in the field of TVs from the eighties but not quite as professional as you. I saw other videos of you later, which explained really well and simply so I will ignore the current one. I enjoyed overall, thanks.
So I have a sound bar and hdmi cable connecting it via the arc channel , nothing comes out the bar. Do I need 2 hdmi cables ? One for send and one for recieve ? As currently it's just the one hdmi cable connecting to a smart 4k teckwood TV , the sound bar is a JVC Atmos sound bar
My TV doesn't have HDMI arc but my Soundbar has HDMI ARC port. There is only one HDMI port on my soundbar. Can i use an HDMI splitter to send one signal to my TV and One to my Soundbar?
I really like your channel. I started watching it while looking for a sound bar, and now I keep watching just because I like the content. Nice work. (Also, thanks for reviewing the Nakamichi system. I got one and I’m in love with it)
@@JonahMatthes Hopefully you can as I desperately need an answer on this question. I bought: - Sony XR-55A80J - Active subwoofer with only RCA input options Now it looks like Sony disabled the option to use the headphones as a subwoofer output option. I look high and low and the Google smart TV simply does not have this option. Now I am stuck with a cable I can't use and a subwoofer I can't seem to connect to. I was going to use the earc as an output and then get an HDMI RCA adapter, will this work? Or finding an adapter for the digital audio out? What is more confusing is that the back of the TV said eARC is IN, but isn't that bidirectional and usable as an out?
@@Supremax67 I think we are stuck with the "in" and "out" labels for historical reasons, from the early days of HDMI when it was a one-way connection. They have added bidirectional elements to it over the years.
Great video. I am just now learning about arc and soundbars and have a long way to go. Just curious I own a Roku ultra and a Tablo device connected to my ethernet hub, but my sound bar is not communication at all with the LG Monitor and the LG soundbar?? I have updated all of my HDMI cables but that does not seem to matter?? I would like to update to better our experiecne the sound, but ?? The soundbar is an older ARC and the TV is the older ARC? Does a new TV and a new Soundbar remedy the problem or can I just get an HDMI Switch??? I really do not know. Thank you again for your great tutorial
One of the clearest synopsis on the topic. Thank you! One question: you suggested plugging Apple TV into the receiver and not the TV? Can you elaborate on that?
I have a Sony 9000E 2017 model with hdmi arc connected to Samsung q990C dolby atmos soundbar with hdmi earc and it does play Dolby Atmos supremely and the soundbar displays it as Dolby atmos format. However, the TV manual says it supports Dolby Digital Plus.
Great roundup on arc & e-arc thanks 😊 Decent that you can admit a mistake, I've made a few myself 🙄 Difference between an amateur and a professional...the professional is still willing to learn. 😏
Well done, hard to find good info about the difference between ARC & eARC. Btw. Can a Roku smart soundbar use HDMI eARC on my Samsung TV eARC HDMI port?
Awesome, so if i purchase an arc to earc converter on my arc only tv will i get dolby atmos on my Sony Ht-St 5000 sound bar lets say using apple tv streaming on Disney Plus and watching a Dolby Atmos movie?
Question--I just bought Topvision sound bar, how do I control the volume of commercials? I was told that a sound bar is the only way to reduce the louder volume of commercials. Thanks Jill
Hi Jonah, If I have a soundbar that supports multiple HDMI, and I connect my Apple TV 4K Box & Cable Box to it via HDMI, then I connect the soundbar to the TV via HDMI(arc). In this configuration, does the HDMI(arc) connection to the TV only send video to the TV from my TV 4K box and Cable Box and lets the soundbar do the decoding of the Audio natively, or does it also send the Audio over the HDMI(arc) ?
What you haven’t mentioned is the inconvenience of when you have several products linked via the ARC’s is if you only want to turn off one component in that chain. Such as a TV when playing audio only. You can’t. Pressing off switches off all products in that chain. You can’t manually switch off a product either as it breaks the chain.
Great video! I've been wondering about HDMI arc/earc compatibility. My new TV is earc-only and the soundbar is arc-only. When I connected them it made a horrible loud buzzing sound. You're saying they can be connected, so I'm asking if there is a setting on the TV that needs to be changed, or some other solution?
Have you use the arc with a hdmi splitter.. I have a HDMI cable from my Apple TV4k going into a two way splitter one output connected to a projector and then I intend to Sonos arc
If I understand what you’re trying to do... -Apple 4K to hdmi splitter -hdmi splitter to projector and Sonos sound bar -projector audio sent to Sonos sound bar via ARC through the splitter. I’m assuming you have a ‘smart’ or Android based projector with apps like Netflix? Either way, the above scenario will not work. As far as I know, no HDMI splitters support ARC If you have a smart projector, what you want to do is this: -Apple TV 4K to projector -projector connected to Sonos Arc sound bar via HDMI through the HDMI ARC input The above will only work IF the projector supports arc.
Thanks for the info. Is it possible for a TV that has HDMI ARC to get HDMI eARC via a firmware update? And if thats not possible is it worth it to get a new TV that has eARC?
Basel Alhasani - FYI - Mohammed was referring to the Samsung HW-Q90R _Soundbar_ firmware update that everyone is waiting for. Not the Samsung Q90R QLED TV. If you’re asking about a TV firmware update that will covert an ARC to eARC, it really depends on the TV. Some TVs may support it, while others may not. I have yet to see one that does support a firmware patch. It either has eARC or it doesn’t.
Thanks Jonah, you saved me hours more of trouble-shooting. After replacing my 20+ year old AV receiver the new receiver in addition to my TV support (e)ARC. I could not get sound to work thru the new AVR and it was the CEC clue that was the problem. No where did I find this information in setting up eARC on my TV. After some research on my TV I was able to find that CEC needed to be enabled, I've never seen this setting before going through all the menus on the TV. That did the trick, and now its a matter of tweaking some of the settings. My TV does have/support DDPlus so I will be checking to see what comes over all the different streaming apps over the next number of days. Thanks..
This was such a highly informative video and it is so refreshing to see a content creator fess up to a previous error in information and correct it. Kudos to you! I was wondering if you or any others here have seen issues with Pioneer receivers when eARC is enabled. My receive shuts off a few seconds after turning it on. The problem disappears when I disable eARC on my Samsung TV and just use optical. Really annoying as I would love to use my remote to control volume (lost my receiver remote ages ago). Any idea why the receiver would shut off after a few seconds with eARC? This is driving me CRAZY!
Let's say you're gaming and want the best audio and picture quality but don't have a sound bar or anything like that. Do you plug the gaming plug into ARC or EARC for best results?
I just ordered the arc ultra :) Is it worth upgrading a tv for earc with the sonos arc ultra ? Is the upgraded sound managed by streaming plateforms like netflix ?
Loved the video, just bought a 75.inch samsung Q80T and 4.weeks.before Yamaha V685. Never before did I connect HDMI to reciever then use ARC to tv. Just hooked up individual inputs HDMI to tv and then optical or digital coaxial to receiver. Well now have Klipsch Dolby Atmos speakers and hooked up lile I'm suppose too, but I have issues, don't think its settings, or setup, mayne the tv. Sometes not always when switching from stereo or DVD to cable I get picture but no sound or sometimes sound but no picture... Only fix is taking the HDMI out of tv or receiver and put back in I guess resetting it then it will come.back after a couple of adjustments... What can I do? Thank you from a.60 year old whonlikes things the old way. If I did it the old way would I lose the Dolby Atmos experience. Thank you Rick.
You have to connect all your media devices (pc, bluray player, apple tv etc) to the receiver. That way you get lossless Dolby Atmos or DTS:X bypassing the Tv limitations. Then you connect the receiver to the Tv via eARC, which you have, so you can play your regular Tv audio through the receiver being also lossless. Then as you said, there are so many issues. I have audio issues preventing to play lossless audio, sometimes getting no audio too... This is due to the constant audio source changes while watching content. Imagine you were playing your 4k Atmos movie from your Blu-ray player, and then you switch to regular Tv, there has ben an audio source change and sometimes creates problems. Sometimes it gets fixed just by changing the input in the receiver and going back to the proper input you're using. Sometimes I have to restart the receiver. Sometimes I have to shut off and turn on the receiver. Worst case scenario I have to unplug the receiver haha. Try in this same order as I described, so you won't have to go through unplugging any HDMI cable ever again. No idea why, everyone have the same issues more or less. And in my case is even worse, because I use a PC as a source of entertainment, and there are constant audio sources changes, from movie files, sound files, different audio sources in websites. In PC you also have to configure sound settings and extra software for Dolby Atmos and DTS:X. It can be frustrating at times, but always works doing what I mentioned.
@@rafars2246 something else that MAY help,reset your tv,before hokking up new devices,to clear the cache,so its not trying to find the device hookedvup previously hole that helps. May have to reset everything?
Then atleast your tv should have bluetooth to connect to the soundbar, some tv s dont mention on the port as ARC but most of the 1st HDMI ports are ARC you can check that on the net with the model number of the tv
@@nlozanoviolin It means none of your HDMI port is arc enabled, atleast does your tv have a earphone output? but the sound will be very low if you want a proper sound you need to upgrade your tv
So I have a tv with 4 HDMI ports but only one is labeled ARC. I plan to get a soundbar and use that ARC port with it. But I also have other devices (PC, Game Consoles, etc.) That I would like to use the soundbar as well. If I were to just have those devices plugged into the other HDMI ports on my tv do they do any communication to automatically output sound via the soundbar? Or would I need to maybe get an optical audio splitter and connect it via the optical port of the soundbar and connect my extra devices that way?
Hey Jonah! Thanks for your video - helping me trawl the soundbar field...I not you mentioned that you tv has ARC and the Sonos ARK has eARC. Considering that would I be better off with the Sonos Ark or Samsung HW-Q950T - the letter where I could at least plug in my blu-ray player directly (as opposed to the Sonos where everything would come from my [only] ARC enables TV)?
Hi Jonah! Thanks about the awesome video and explanation. Im trying to think in some way to add 4 extra speakers to my LG SN4 soundbar 2.1, without opening the sound bar and soldering the tips of the soundbar loudspeakers to wires of the external speakers. Can I use the HDMI ARC output + 1 converter HDMI to RCA and them distribuit the signal by RCA making some divisions to other 4 roof speakers? I know that the sound wont be stereo, but will that works? Does the RCA can feed energy to other 4 speakers or I will need an sound repeater? Thanks a lot!
Can you go over cable quality & length as it relates to performance? I just put in cat 8 Ethernet cables (from cat 5), some better quality hdmi cables and shortened my coax cables (Dish installer left about 25 feet when I only needed a 12 ft cable). I think a lot of people buy good components but don’t realize their cables need updating to so they get disappointed by lag, picture quality, etc.
5:45 Dolby Digital Plus is the Lossy Compressed Streaming/Broadcast version of Dolby Atmos & Dolby TrueHD is the Lossless Uncompressed High Definition Blu-Ray Version of Dolby Atmos Sony’s first 4K UHD HDR OLED Smart Big-Screen Android TV with Dolby Vision from 2017 A1E does have Dolby Digital Plus Over HDMI 2.0 ARC but I am not sure if the built-in tv apps on the Sony A1E 4K UHD HDR Dolby Vision Smart Big Screen OLED TV like Fandango At Home (Formerly Vudu) Movies Anywhere Netflix Disney+ Max (Formerly HBO Max) Paramount+ or Amazon Prime Video etc. will show and output Dolby Atmos-Dolby Digital Plus on so many films tv shows or documentaries even though the tv supports Dolby Digital Plus a Streaming & Broadcast Version of Dolby Atmos
Bro, I have an important question, please help... if our TV supports earc but doesn't have the Dolby Atmos feature, while the soundbar already supports the Dolby Atmos feature,does the output sound Dolby Atmos lossy or Dolby Atmos lossless... please answer so it doesn't confuse me🙏🤔
Thanks for quality information Jonah. Had a doubt though. If my soundbar setup supports Dolby Atmos while my TV does not have Dolby Atmos in it. And I connect the soundbar to TV via HDMI eARC (supported on both of them). Will I be able to experience true atmos? Thanks
@@JonahMatthes Thanks for your reply Jonah. I’m afraid but there are quite a few TVs like one I’m looking forward to - LG 60UP7750PTZ which have eARC port but no Dolby Atmos. While Soundbar setup does have both eARC and atmos.
Great vids Jonah. Are you aware of Roku issues where it wont connect to the receiver...and least for audio? I get the Roku screens visually...but no sound.
Good afternoon. I'm new to this channel. I recently bought an Amazon Fire soundbar for my Vizio D-series 32” TV, which supports Dolby Audio and DTS: Virtual X. However, even as I was excited to use this Amazon soundbar to listen to music videos on TH-cam, the treble, bass, and drums nearly drowned out the vocals. I don't have a lip-syncing issue with the video; it’s just that the vocals are barely hearable, even on my TV’s TH-cam app. But the vocals, treble, bass, and drums are equally matched when I'm using this Amazon soundbar to listen to my CDs on my DVD player while connected to my TV via HDMI cable. If you haven't already, is it possible to make a video about Dolby Audio, why it doesn't always work with mp3 videos on TH-cam, and why the vocals in the music videos are barely hearable? Thank you very much.
Hi Jonah, Thanks for great info on the video !I have a MiTV 4A pro with Souncore Infini pro soundbar and connected via HDMI Arc connection. At times , i see there won't be audio coming in at all and i need to restart my TV & Soundbar together. Settings like CEC is enabled already and it works like a charm . This is an intermittent issue. I don't think Soundbar directly has any issue as via Bluetooth , Soundbar plays awesome from a connected phone. What would be your suggestion here ??? Do you suggest i change the HDMI cable which came with the soundbar (I don't see that its even gold plated )
Hi Jonah, I am a new subscriber. I just bought a Bose 900 sound bar, a 700 Bose bass unit and Bose 700 surround speakers. I assembled it over this past weekend. I had to choose between a HDMI Arc cable or a Digital Audio cable. I choose the latter. My LG TV has two HDMI Arc connections. After watching your video it sounds like the Arc cable is better. Please advise. Thank you. Craig
Can you use an hdmi splitter to give audio signals to a soundbar that only has an hdmi arc port, while the other leg from the splitter supplies a projector? Or does the soundbar have to have a regular hdmi input?
I have a Hisense Tornado 65inch TV. And it believe doesn’t have eARC. Just the normal ARC. Suppose I get a Dolby Atmos Soundbar would I need something like an Apple TV box to make it decode Atmos? As in connect the eARC sound bar to Apple TV and use the pass through on the soundbar to connect to TV? Please share your thoughts.
So from what I can understand is in order to get the best audio the tv port must be earc as well as device such as soundbar? Or as long as tv is earc it will be just as fine?
You earned a sub for being honest, humble, and correcting your mistakes. This adds to the transparency of any misinformation you might have put out. Shows integrity, who, and what your channels is about.
well said, and bang on target, I admire someone who admits he has made a mistake, we all make them.
I been using optic cable for the pass 8 years lol and just not to long ago I find out that optic doesn't pass Dolby and DTS.... just basic 5.1 channel. I was happy to find out that my 8 years old Onkyo AV supported ARC all this time lol. So I reconnected with new HDMI and turn ARC on !! And OMG what a difference!!! Its sounds so much clearer, more effects, more details. Just WOW!! I've been missing alot
For me i think optical sound more crispier
I thought an optical cable supports at least 5 channels? I'm really confused about this because I plan on getting E ark to run a 5.1 channel soundbar and I don't even know if I need E arc to do this, Do you know anything about this
If my playstation is playing Blu-ray but has only optical should I go for optical input ? Although my lg tv is 4k and has e arc
The thing is they could have upgraded fiber to support any format but because there is no protection like HDCP they didn't. Fiber easily has the bandwidth for any audio format although they might have had to update it to support it but it could be done.
@@JoshFisher567 I hope will happen in future
The detail of your presentations are not only interesting due to a passion for tech, but extremely educational. I've made solid purchases thanks to your in depth reviews and audio expertise. Yourself, Vincent and Caleb are outstanding for Audio and Visual enthusiasts.
Who are “Vincent” and “Caleb”?
Are they on this channel or another one?
@@totallyfrozen Vincent is a professional calibrator and I would say he is a really good expert. His youtube channel is called HDTVtest.
You can see Caleb on the channel digital trends and he knows a lot of this stuff as well.
I'm subbing because you were honest with your mistake.
Honesty goes a long way young man. Thank you.
It wasnt even a big mistake. This stuff gets confusing
“Young man” LOL! Stop it. He’s grown. Show a little respect.
@@totallyfrozen I mean, relatively speaking tho
I'm in the market for an eARC AVR now. My TV (LG C9) recently had a firmware update to support eARC. I want all of the sounds available, haha. Thanks for not getting too technical.
Great descriptive differences of EARC & ARC. Good to know that you no longer need the CEC part to control the system!
Great video man. You're really able to present this confusing information in a digestible manner. Just a recommendation though, if you are intending this to be as informative as possible then I would mention somewhere that if people are planning on upgrading from ARC to eARC then they WILL need to upgrade their HDMI cable as well. I just know so many people won't know to do this and then be utterly lost.
Such genuine.....I haven't seen anybody like this for a while now ....Love from Tamilnadu.....🇮🇳..Thanks mate..👍🏼keep up the good work
Good info. I think with the advancement in TV displays with OLED, QLED, in 4K, 8K and AI upscaling and what not, I think it makes more sense to plug everything straight into the TV and just have one eARC HDMI connection to an external audio driver like a sound bar or AV receiver. When you run out of HDMI channels on the TV, then we can start using the HDMI ports on the external devices to go up the same eARC bandwidth. For AV Receiver lovers like me, eARC is still not common in them unless you get a flagship model at this point which is a bummer. They should really make eARC more commonly available on AV Receivers. Cheers.
Liked just for the sincerity you showed
If you're using a fairly modern audio receiver (Denon, Yamaha, etc.) you can overcome a lot of e-ARC issues by simply plugging your devices into the receiver, which will then handle the audio processing, instead of the TV.
I.E. I plug my FireStick into a port on my receiver not a port on the TV. Then if the source the FireStick is pulling from has an audio format like ATMOS or DTS: X the receiver, not the TV processes the audio and video sending the video to the TV and the audio directly to my 5.1.2 surround speakers. I use this for all kinds of things including streaming services and my EMBY home server system.
If I set the DSP on my Yamaha receiver to "Auto" then I get whatever format the signal is capable of producing though I may have to go into the controls on whatever video source is playing and select say "ATMOS" instead of 5.1.
So what would you suggest if the TV has only ARC but not EARC, the soundbar DOES have an EARC and I'm using an external amplifier, not a reciever or AV reciever that has HDMI input (2) and HDMI output (1)? I also bought a HDMI extractor in hopes that this will help resolve any issues of ARC to EARC.
Humble pie prevents dementia . Good video .
This is the best explanation I have come across. I really like Chris Majestic and Caleb Dennison, but this video did it for me and has been a great help. I have to explain this stuff as part of my job so I'm very grateful for your help and advice. Thanks Jonah!
Hi, I suggest you delete the older ARC video which you said it got some mistakes. It got me confused and mislead for few days
Agreed. Keeping a video up with mistakes just will lower your credibility and you don't want that. 😉
For input lag ps4 it is better to use hdmi 1 or hdmi 2 earc?
Yeah, no. That video has majority of his entire channel's views.
That would essentially kill a small channel like this one.
He did well enough to post a correction video, much better than what some bigger channels tend to do.
@@marcellomarcucci3348 unless its audio lag arc or earc will do nothing to solve it. The primary purpose of arc is too send audio signals upstream or downstream and to allow your TV to play audio over a single cable to your AV setup.
@@SuperAmazinglover so it is better hdmi 1 for video?
I saw your previous video. We learn from out mistakes :-) Appreciate your honesty and you deserve 💯 any my subscription, best of luck with your journey in TH-cam
By the time I figure this out there will be a new cable?
😂
Atmos can only be transmitted through eARC. Devices that only support standard ARC are incapable of transmitting high bitrate audio. In many cases, the device will transcode and/or downmix the signal into something that ARC can support, like EAC3. General rule of thumb, ARC can support up to 5.1 channels of compressed audio. Anything more will require eARC.
WHICH IS
ARC OR eARC IS BEST ?
You are doing a professional work. Learnt from you the power of honesty . Thanks
To add little clarification as it could probably still confuse someone, yes it is true that eArc can send any uncompressed/lossless audio codec and also quite a few compressed ones, but what you can actually use depends on both side of the connection as they have to support them as well. And there can be a lot of unforeseen caveats in this area. What is obvious is a soundbar side, of course your soundbar will process only codecs it has built in support for. However, the less obvious might be limitation on the TV side as TV might not be able not only to process particular codec itself, but also fail to send some codecs through its eArc implementation despite the fact that eArc itself is perfectly able to handle that format.
A very popular example of this from current year is a 2020 line of LG OLEDs (for example 65OLEDCX) who no longer support once very popular DTS sound format and will not only fail to process it in TV, but also will not passthrough DTS over eArc and therefore this format won't work even on DTS supporting soundbar connected to the TV.
Is this the normal 5.1 DTS that SPDIF supports?
Thank you for this. As i have seen your old video first. Good thing you have an update. Really help me decide on what soundbar to get.
I have a TV, Receiver, Soundbar, Playstation console, and Headphones with base station.
Question is: What is the procedure for setting them up. Which cables go to which devices?
Currently I have the TV's HDMI ARC connected directly to the Receiver's HDMI ARC port, but the Soundbar is connected to the TV via it's optical port and so is the headphone's base station optical to TV's optical via a splitter.
Great information . thanks
Do you need a special hdmi cable to support eARC? Just wondering...
So it can't just be a regular HDMI port it has to say ARC? So like a receiver that has an ARC out if the monitor only has an HDMI port it wouldn't work?
Noob question, I know you mentioned earc from speakers to tv arc. What about if u have a new tv with earc and then the receiver for your 5.1 only has arc…is it the same sort of story, do u lose out and the receiver will compress sounds and won’t be as good if u had earc on both the tv and receiver?
TIA
You can get lossless sound if you have a Blu-ray player like Oppo UDP-203. It has internal decoding and Dolby Atmos + DTS- X. I have it and it works great on surround soundbar
Kudos for correct a previous mistake and putting together a correction video
I bought the Marantz 1509 well after the 1510 came out, and saved a bundle. The A.R.C. Works Very Well, just watch Apocalypse Now opening with the helicopter wop, wop, whopping around the room - Fantastic! You can't chase new Tech, you'll never catch up. Oh, by the way, I've owned this for years, and Never had a lip sync problem. Jonah, thanks for the unbiased video. Thumbs up brother!
Would love to see which HDMI cables you recommend as well!
What are the best HDMI cables for eARC? Thanks again for the great content and getting right to the point
You just scrambled my brain permanently
Thanks for the video. After getting a new LG C9 smart TV I was brand new to ARC (or in this case eARC). I'm using that TV with my old Onkyo TX-508 receiver and, for the most part, I got it to work with ARC (the old Onkyo only supports ARC). I have noticed that the audio drops out for a second every once in a while and I'm not sure if that's due to the age of my Onkyo receiver, or if it might be an HDMI cable issue. I did notice occasional drop in the both the audio AND video signal when playing an UHD Blu-Ray via my Xbox One S as well. It prompted me to try getting newer HDMI cables to see if that helped with the HDR content issue. Those haven't arrived yet, so I'm not sure if that would help solve either problem. The cables I'm using now are about 6 years old.
Like I said, it's working about 99% of the time. It's just the audio hiccups and the video drop outs on HDR content that are a bit annoying. Just wondering if you had any other advice on what else I might look at to troubleshoot. Even though I got it to work I have a feeling that I might have the connections/settings out of whack. At the moment I have the cable box (HDMI port 1), the Onkyo (HDMI port 2, the eARC-labeled input) and the Xbox (HDMI Port 4) directly connected to the TV.
With the old TV, I had the Cablebox connected to the Xbox passthru and that connected to the TV, but I didn't want to have the Xbox on to watch cable anymore. Do you think it would be better to plug the Cablebox and Xbox to the Onkyo inputs and then link that to the TV? Or would it matter?
Thanks!
eARC is known to have to issues like this. I think upgrading the cables was a good first move. If you keep having issue, I would definitely try switching the Cable Box and Xbox over to the Receiver to see if that makes a difference. If you keep having issues from there, then it could be due to the age of your receiver. Hope this helps!
Jonah, thanks for these videos. I recently purchased a 2019 75" Samsung QLED. I then waited 2 months for a matching Samsung soundbar. I have issues with the lip syncing with broadcast cable mostly. Netflix is good but the cable really gets out of sorts. I read a few posts about the Samsung soundbars and it seems to be a wide ranging problem with Samsung bars. One person said not to use the ARC HDMI port, to use either a different port or an optical cable. If I scroll through the inputs on the soundbar remote it helps for a little while but eventually goes out again.
I will try an update for the soundbar, let me know if you have any input.
Thank you,
Tim
So this comment is very much late, but I bought a leftover 2019 Samsung Q90R. Bought a Q7CR sound bar. Then most recently a set of HW-Q90R surround left/right but I can’t get them to pair to the sound bar or TV? Please tell me I can connect these?
Thank you so much for putting this up! The ARC turned out to be the key/fault I ended up working through to restore HDMI output from my laptop > Yamaha > speakers.
"I'll cut myself some slack as well".. Awsome! - Thanks for yet a great upload. Kepp up the good work.
Thanks for the detailed explanation, you made it so easy to understand . Is there anyway to see the volume level of Sonos arc on tv when connected with hdmi arc/earc. I can’t see the volume level, only visible on the phone app.
I actually just went to my TV and got this working! 1st you’ll need to make sure HDMI CEC is enabled and working. Make sure it can recognize that a Sonos Arc is connected. Then for me, I went to my Vizio TV’s audio settings and enabled “Volume Control Display”. Now the volume shows up on the TV for the Sonos Arc. Hope this helps!
Thanks so much. My Samsung TV has CEC on but can’t show volume control . Doesn’t even give me the option of displaying it on tv. I asked another you tuber Peter P who does extensive testing also confirmed his LG CX couldn’t display volume either .
Very good explanation. My TV and sound bar have e-ARC so does any special HDMI cable I need to buy or does just the usual HMDI cable work?
Denon recently announced their new 2020 AVR models with HDMI 2.1 support. The only issue is that out of all its HDMI ports only one supports 2.1, the rest are 2.0.
Its has one 8K dedicated hdmi port.
Their explanation is that right now aside from the upcoming nextgen consoles, nothing else content wise is 2.1, and it also would add to the cost of the product if they made all ports full 2.1.
They recommend, if you're planning to buy both consoles and want to connect both but AVR only has one hdmi 2.1 port, running hdmi eARC cable from TV to your eARC compatible AVR or Soundbar for audio and running both consoles directly into the TVs hdmi 2.1 ports to get full 2.1 video features. If you plan to only own 1 of the consoles then you dont have an issue and can connect it directly to the 1 hdmi 2.1 port on the AVR.
I have an 11.2 setup and so I would have considered these new AVR models but not at that price point for just 1 hdmi 2.1 port.
I'll wait next year when hopefully they release 2021 models with full 2.1 support on all hdmi ports, until then, I will run both XSX and PS5 through TV and connect to my AVR via eARC, since my LG C9 TV is hdmi 2.1.
Since it appears you understand the the connections between tv, consoles, and sound system I have a question for you if you don’t mind.. So.. I have a Samsung QLED tv. It has 4, 2.0 HDMI ports and one is ARC (not eARC compatible). Now the new consoles appear to be eARC compatible. I’m stating this because I’m looking into buying a soundbar/sound system that has eARC capabilities (I was looking into the Samsung HW-Q90R 7.1.2 soundbar setup since it’s made for QLEDs). So my question is, would I be able to take advantage of eARC at all with my current tv? My only guess is that I could run the eARC from the Xbox Series X to the soundbar, and then regular HDMI from the soundbar to the tv. So that I’d only be able to take advantage of eARC through my console and not the tv itself. Is this assumption correct? (I’m new to all this). Thank you!
@@bnm1211 correct. You would connect consoles directly into soundbar to get HD Audio.
But your TV not having eARC won't get HD Audio like DTS:X or Dolby Atoms. Unless Samsung added eARC to your ARC port via Firmware update like LG did to my C9 TV.
TMSKILZ Thank you!
Your doing a good job brother appreciate your assistance in understanding this HDMI ARC..
I just got a brand new Denon Ds217, and it has HDMI eArc, and HDMI. It also has Dolby Atmos, but you have to use HDMI eArc .My TV is fairly new, and it has that choice in the setup menu, too. No matter what I did, I couldn't get it to play sound, until I plugged in the Optical, but The Atmos doesn't work with Optical. Thanks for the video. I'm not Tech Ignorant, but normally, everything just works. My receiver had zero problems playing back, with eArc. But, most of the time, we just want a soundbar, with the Sub, for watching TV.
Hi Jonah. I just bought a 2022 LG 55” C2 OLED. I also just purchased a LG sound bar that has Meridian, Dolby Atmos, DTS:X , it’s a 3.1.2ch sound bar. My question is, should I run an optical cable that comes with it, or use a regular HDMI cable, for the best sound? Thanks👍 Mark O.
I have the same! Which option did you get the best sound?
@@Avril.Lavigne HDMI fosho
@@michiganman5969 Sorry, I didn't understand.. 🤔🥺
@@Avril.Lavigne it depends on what devices you have. Are you only hooking up a TV and soundbar because that's really easy.
If you're hooking up a TV, full on surround sound, a PC, a few Bluetooth devices, wifi, and Xbox and a cable box, ECT, like me, It's a longer answer!
Spoiler alert: HDMI E ark is the newest easiest most future proof way. If money is no object.
At the end of the day there's more than one way to skin that cat. And believe me 5.1 Dolby digital is way better than everyone makes it out to be.
How important is your budget :) is the real question 🤑
@@Avril.Lavigne if your TV and soundbar are both LG you can actually use the TV speakers and the sound bar combined, at the same time, completely wireless, to get real Dolby Atmos surround sound!
Did I mention wireless?
LG smart devices sync up together super easy.
I have an LG C1 & just got the Bose 900. (Before seeing this video) sound is great but I am returning the Bose as the audio is out of sync with the TV.
I have tried a bunch of settings on both units. Seems I should have got a soundbar with HDMI input, then plugged in the fire stick to this and not use the TV apps? Is that the preferred method, to use the input on the sound bar so sound is direct?
CEC commands are *not* infrared signals. They do, however, take the place of IR signals to control a "slave" device using the "master" remote control (among other things).
I finally understand ARC and eARC , thanks for making it so clear.
Thx mate. No worries. We are all constantly learning anyways so it's ok. Keep it up. Cheers
Well detailed explanation! Thanks for this! ❤️
At the end of the video. He mentioned that everything turns on after turning it off.
It’s because you need to turn off the (Anynet-HDMI+ CEC
On the TV so the signals doesn’t go back to the receiver and/or any other external amp like my Emotiva BasX-A3 in my case.
You only need to turn it on when watching or using any of the apps on your TV.
Like Hulu, Netflix, Prime, TH-cam, Disney +, HBO and so on.
For surround sound listening.
Will an HDMI ARC sound bar (Samsung) work on a new TV with HDMI eARC?
Thx for the clarification. Cheers!
Everyone seems to get this wrong. If you have all your devices plugged into a receiver the receiver doesn't send audio to the TV then bring it back to send it through the speakers. That makes no sense 😂 the audio signal is only sent through arc/earc if it is coming from the TV and going to the receiver. If everything is plugged into the receiver then it separates the audio and video signals and sends the audio directly to the speakers while sending the video signal to the TV. I figured this out when I couldn't get my Philips hue lights to sync to music or audio but they worked fine with video. It wasn't working because the receiver wasn't sending an audio signal through earc to the sync box/TV. It was sending the audio direct to my speakers. I actually had to go into the receiver audio output settings and tell it to send audio to the TV aswell as the speakers to get the lights to sync to sound. I would assume it would be the same case for most modern avr systems. The other thing that alot of people are confused by is that you do not need a Dolby Atmos enabled TV to enjoy Dolby Atmos. If you use an avr that is Atmos enabled and your sources like Apple TV fire cube n stuff plugged straight into Ur avr you get Dolby Atmos because it's the avr that deals with the audio it has nothing to do with the TV. Atmos enabled TVs only mean that the TV will send an Atmos signal through arc/earc to a connected receiver for its native apps so you don't need to use an external source.
From the moment you started talking about everything you did wrong (in the sixth video) I did not understand even a single word.
I'm in the field of TVs from the eighties but not quite as professional as you.
I saw other videos of you later, which explained really well and simply so I will ignore the current one.
I enjoyed overall, thanks.
So I have a sound bar and hdmi cable connecting it via the arc channel , nothing comes out the bar. Do I need 2 hdmi cables ? One for send and one for recieve ? As currently it's just the one hdmi cable connecting to a smart 4k teckwood TV , the sound bar is a JVC Atmos sound bar
My TV doesn't have HDMI arc but my Soundbar has HDMI ARC port. There is only one HDMI port on my soundbar. Can i use an HDMI splitter to send one signal to my TV and One to my Soundbar?
I really like your channel. I started watching it while looking for a sound bar, and now I keep watching just because I like the content. Nice work. (Also, thanks for reviewing the Nakamichi system. I got one and I’m in love with it)
Awesome! Thank you very much!
@@JonahMatthes Hopefully you can as I desperately need an answer on this question. I bought:
- Sony XR-55A80J
- Active subwoofer with only RCA input options
Now it looks like Sony disabled the option to use the headphones as a subwoofer output option. I look high and low and the Google smart TV simply does not have this option. Now I am stuck with a cable I can't use and a subwoofer I can't seem to connect to. I was going to use the earc as an output and then get an HDMI RCA adapter, will this work? Or finding an adapter for the digital audio out?
What is more confusing is that the back of the TV said eARC is IN, but isn't that bidirectional and usable as an out?
@@Supremax67 I think we are stuck with the "in" and "out" labels for historical reasons, from the early days of HDMI when it was a one-way connection. They have added bidirectional elements to it over the years.
Thank you. This was just the information I was looking for.
Great video. I am just now learning about arc and soundbars and have a long way to go. Just curious I own a Roku ultra and a Tablo device connected to my ethernet hub, but my sound bar is not communication at all with the LG Monitor and the LG soundbar?? I have updated all of my HDMI cables but that does not seem to matter??
I would like to update to better our experiecne the sound, but ?? The soundbar is an older ARC and the TV is the older ARC? Does a new TV and a new Soundbar remedy the problem or can I just get an HDMI Switch??? I really do not know. Thank you again for your great tutorial
Thank you for the video. Please can you tell me... Do I need to buy a new cable for eARC to work?
One of the clearest synopsis on the topic. Thank you! One question: you suggested plugging Apple TV into the receiver and not the TV? Can you elaborate on that?
I have a Sony 9000E 2017 model with hdmi arc connected to Samsung q990C dolby atmos soundbar with hdmi earc and it does play Dolby Atmos supremely and the soundbar displays it as Dolby atmos format. However, the TV manual says it supports Dolby Digital Plus.
Is it true that all streaming services are compressed hence if that’s all you have arc is fine?
Nice job kid. You speak very fluidly.
Great roundup on arc & e-arc thanks 😊
Decent that you can admit a mistake, I've made a few myself 🙄
Difference between an amateur and a professional...the professional is still willing to learn. 😏
Well done, hard to find good info about the difference between ARC & eARC. Btw. Can a Roku smart soundbar use HDMI eARC on my Samsung TV eARC HDMI port?
Awesome, so if i purchase an arc to earc converter on my arc only tv will i get dolby atmos on my Sony Ht-St 5000 sound bar lets say using apple tv streaming on Disney Plus and watching a Dolby Atmos movie?
Question--I just bought Topvision sound bar, how do I control the volume of commercials? I was told that a sound bar is the only way to reduce the louder volume of commercials. Thanks Jill
Hmmm...I just bought an LG C1 tv and hooked it up to my Pioneer VSX-33 receiver, the latter which I believe - I need to check - only supports ARC.
Hi Jonah, If I have a soundbar that supports multiple HDMI, and I connect my Apple TV 4K Box & Cable Box to it via HDMI, then I connect the soundbar to the TV via HDMI(arc). In this configuration, does the HDMI(arc) connection to the TV only send video to the TV from my TV 4K box and Cable Box and lets the soundbar do the decoding of the Audio natively, or does it also send the Audio over the HDMI(arc) ?
What you haven’t mentioned is the inconvenience of when you have several products linked via the ARC’s is if you only want to turn off one component in that chain. Such as a TV when playing audio only. You can’t. Pressing off switches off all products in that chain. You can’t manually switch off a product either as it breaks the chain.
If I connect an active subwoofer to the HDMI arc output, can I also hear the sound of the TV?
@@klazing How can you connect an active sub with HDMI? I’ve never seen it…
@@stevies.1975 You can connect it with an HDMI to RCA adapter.
@@klazinglg c1 can connect/combine lg wireless(bt woofer) and the internal speakers together
Great video! I've been wondering about HDMI arc/earc compatibility. My new TV is earc-only and the soundbar is arc-only. When I connected them it made a horrible loud buzzing sound. You're saying they can be connected, so I'm asking if there is a setting on the TV that needs to be changed, or some other solution?
Have you use the arc with a hdmi splitter..
I have a HDMI cable from my Apple TV4k going into a two way splitter one output connected to a projector and then I intend to Sonos arc
If I understand what you’re trying to do...
-Apple 4K to hdmi splitter
-hdmi splitter to projector and Sonos sound bar
-projector audio sent to Sonos sound bar via ARC through the splitter.
I’m assuming you have a ‘smart’ or Android based projector with apps like Netflix?
Either way, the above scenario will not work. As far as I know, no HDMI splitters support ARC
If you have a smart projector, what you want to do is this:
-Apple TV 4K to projector
-projector connected to Sonos Arc sound bar via HDMI through the HDMI ARC input
The above will only work IF the projector supports arc.
Thanks for the info. Is it possible for a TV that has HDMI ARC to get HDMI eARC via a firmware update? And if thats not possible is it worth it to get a new TV that has eARC?
Been waiting for nearly a year for Samsung to update the Q90R with an eArc firmware update
Mohammed Ali so it can happen ?
@@MSAli86 q90r soundbar got the update, any update on the q90r tv getting the update anytime soon?
Basel Alhasani - FYI - Mohammed was referring to the Samsung HW-Q90R _Soundbar_ firmware update that everyone is waiting for. Not the Samsung Q90R QLED TV. If you’re asking about a TV firmware update that will covert an ARC to eARC, it really depends on the TV. Some TVs may support it, while others may not. I have yet to see one that does support a firmware patch. It either has eARC or it doesn’t.
Thanks Jonah, you saved me hours more of trouble-shooting. After replacing my 20+ year old AV receiver the new receiver in addition to my TV support (e)ARC. I could not get sound to work thru the new AVR and it was the CEC clue that was the problem. No where did I find this information in setting up eARC on my TV. After some research on my TV I was able to find that CEC needed to be enabled, I've never seen this setting before going through all the menus on the TV. That did the trick, and now its a matter of tweaking some of the settings. My TV does have/support DDPlus so I will be checking to see what comes over all the different streaming apps over the next number of days. Thanks..
Are you going to look at play fi surround? I got a Philips 705 coming and the details about if this is supported and how is really confusing.
This was such a highly informative video and it is so refreshing to see a content creator fess up to a previous error in information and correct it. Kudos to you! I was wondering if you or any others here have seen issues with Pioneer receivers when eARC is enabled. My receive shuts off a few seconds after turning it on. The problem disappears when I disable eARC on my Samsung TV and just use optical. Really annoying as I would love to use my remote to control volume (lost my receiver remote ages ago). Any idea why the receiver would shut off after a few seconds with eARC? This is driving me CRAZY!
Let's say you're gaming and want the best audio and picture quality but don't have a sound bar or anything like that. Do you plug the gaming plug into ARC or EARC for best results?
I just ordered the arc ultra :) Is it worth upgrading a tv for earc with the sonos arc ultra ? Is the upgraded sound managed by streaming plateforms like netflix ?
Loved the video, just bought a 75.inch samsung Q80T and 4.weeks.before Yamaha V685. Never before did I connect HDMI to reciever then use ARC to tv. Just hooked up individual inputs HDMI to tv and then optical or digital coaxial to receiver. Well now have Klipsch Dolby Atmos speakers and hooked up lile I'm suppose too, but I have issues, don't think its settings, or setup, mayne the tv. Sometes not always when switching from stereo or DVD to cable I get picture but no sound or sometimes sound but no picture... Only fix is taking the HDMI out of tv or receiver and put back in I guess resetting it then it will come.back after a couple of adjustments... What can I do? Thank you from a.60 year old whonlikes things the old way. If I did it the old way would I lose the Dolby Atmos experience. Thank you Rick.
You have to connect all your media devices (pc, bluray player, apple tv etc) to the receiver. That way you get lossless Dolby Atmos or DTS:X bypassing the Tv limitations. Then you connect the receiver to the Tv via eARC, which you have, so you can play your regular Tv audio through the receiver being also lossless. Then as you said, there are so many issues. I have audio issues preventing to play lossless audio, sometimes getting no audio too... This is due to the constant audio source changes while watching content.
Imagine you were playing your 4k Atmos movie from your Blu-ray player, and then you switch to regular Tv, there has ben an audio source change and sometimes creates problems. Sometimes it gets fixed just by changing the input in the receiver and going back to the proper input you're using. Sometimes I have to restart the receiver. Sometimes I have to shut off and turn on the receiver. Worst case scenario I have to unplug the receiver haha. Try in this same order as I described, so you won't have to go through unplugging any HDMI cable ever again.
No idea why, everyone have the same issues more or less. And in my case is even worse, because I use a PC as a source of entertainment, and there are constant audio sources changes, from movie files, sound files, different audio sources in websites. In PC you also have to configure sound settings and extra software for Dolby Atmos and DTS:X. It can be frustrating at times, but always works doing what I mentioned.
@@rafars2246 something else that MAY help,reset your tv,before hokking up new devices,to clear the cache,so its not trying to find the device hookedvup previously hole that helps. May have to reset everything?
How can I connect a Soundbar to my TV if my TV doesn’t have an optical audio input or HDMI ARC?
Then atleast your tv should have bluetooth to connect to the soundbar, some tv s dont mention on the port as ARC but most of the 1st HDMI ports are ARC you can check that on the net with the model number of the tv
Hmmm might have to upgrade the TV bro lol
Yup upgrade pronto cuz
@@anthonyjenson764 I tried all the HDMIs but none connected to the soundbar.
It doesn’t have bluetooth either.
@@nlozanoviolin It means none of your HDMI port is arc enabled, atleast does your tv have a earphone output? but the sound will be very low if you want a proper sound you need to upgrade your tv
So I have a tv with 4 HDMI ports but only one is labeled ARC. I plan to get a soundbar and use that ARC port with it. But I also have other devices (PC, Game Consoles, etc.) That I would like to use the soundbar as well. If I were to just have those devices plugged into the other HDMI ports on my tv do they do any communication to automatically output sound via the soundbar? Or would I need to maybe get an optical audio splitter and connect it via the optical port of the soundbar and connect my extra devices that way?
I have a question about whether i should plug my fire tv into my Yamaha receiver and then to my Sony Oled TV?
Hey Jonah! Thanks for your video - helping me trawl the soundbar field...I not you mentioned that you tv has ARC and the Sonos ARK has eARC. Considering that would I be better off with the Sonos Ark or Samsung HW-Q950T - the letter where I could at least plug in my blu-ray player directly (as opposed to the Sonos where everything would come from my [only] ARC enables TV)?
Get the Samsung
Thank You I have wondered if I had it down and I didnt its Appreciated ,do I need a different TV mine is a 2020 TV but has ARC not Earc ?
Does arc turn off the TV Speakers? Great video. I watched the first one before I found this one. Thank you.
Usually yes. You typically don’t want a soundbar/AV Receiver and the TV speakers on at the same time.
I'm from India .your video is easy to understand
Hi Jonah! Thanks about the awesome video and explanation. Im trying to think in some way to add 4 extra speakers to my LG SN4 soundbar 2.1, without opening the sound bar and soldering the tips of the soundbar loudspeakers to wires of the external speakers. Can I use the HDMI ARC output + 1 converter HDMI to RCA and them distribuit the signal by RCA making some divisions to other 4 roof speakers? I know that the sound wont be stereo, but will that works? Does the RCA can feed energy to other 4 speakers or I will need an sound repeater? Thanks a lot!
Can you go over cable quality & length as it relates to performance? I just put in cat 8 Ethernet cables (from cat 5), some better quality hdmi cables and shortened my coax cables (Dish installer left about 25 feet when I only needed a 12 ft cable).
I think a lot of people buy good components but don’t realize their cables need updating to so they get disappointed by lag, picture quality, etc.
Hello Jonah, to enjoy eARC support do both the TV & receiver require eARC ports? Would an HDMI ARC to eARC splitter do the trick?
5:45 Dolby Digital Plus is the Lossy Compressed Streaming/Broadcast version of Dolby Atmos & Dolby TrueHD is the Lossless Uncompressed High Definition Blu-Ray Version of Dolby Atmos Sony’s first 4K UHD HDR OLED Smart Big-Screen Android TV with Dolby Vision from 2017 A1E does have Dolby Digital Plus Over HDMI 2.0 ARC but I am not sure if the built-in tv apps on the Sony A1E 4K UHD HDR Dolby Vision Smart Big Screen OLED TV like Fandango At Home (Formerly Vudu) Movies Anywhere Netflix Disney+ Max (Formerly HBO Max) Paramount+ or Amazon Prime Video etc. will show and output Dolby Atmos-Dolby Digital Plus on so many films tv shows or documentaries even though the tv supports Dolby Digital Plus a Streaming & Broadcast Version of Dolby Atmos
Bro, I have an important question, please help... if our TV supports earc but doesn't have the Dolby Atmos feature, while the soundbar already supports the Dolby Atmos feature,does the output sound Dolby Atmos lossy or Dolby Atmos lossless... please answer so it doesn't confuse me🙏🤔
Thanks for quality information Jonah. Had a doubt though.
If my soundbar setup supports Dolby Atmos while my TV does not have Dolby Atmos in it. And I connect the soundbar to TV via HDMI eARC (supported on both of them). Will I be able to experience true atmos?
Thanks
If your TV supports HDMI eARC, then it definitely supports Dolby Atmos!
@@JonahMatthes Thanks for your reply Jonah. I’m afraid but there are quite a few TVs like one I’m looking forward to - LG 60UP7750PTZ which have eARC port but no Dolby Atmos.
While Soundbar setup does have both eARC and atmos.
Great vids Jonah. Are you aware of Roku issues where it wont connect to the receiver...and least for audio? I get the Roku screens visually...but no sound.
Good afternoon. I'm new to this channel. I recently bought an Amazon Fire soundbar for my Vizio D-series 32” TV, which supports Dolby Audio and DTS: Virtual X. However, even as I was excited to use this Amazon soundbar to listen to music videos on TH-cam, the treble, bass, and drums nearly drowned out the vocals. I don't have a lip-syncing issue with the video; it’s just that the vocals are barely hearable, even on my TV’s TH-cam app. But the vocals, treble, bass, and drums are equally matched when I'm using this Amazon soundbar to listen to my CDs on my DVD player while connected to my TV via HDMI cable. If you haven't already, is it possible to make a video about Dolby Audio, why it doesn't always work with mp3 videos on TH-cam, and why the vocals in the music videos are barely hearable? Thank you very much.
Hi Jonah,
Thanks for great info on the video !I have a MiTV 4A pro with Souncore Infini pro soundbar and connected via HDMI Arc connection. At times , i see there won't be audio coming in at all and i need to restart my TV & Soundbar together. Settings like CEC is enabled already and it works like a charm . This is an intermittent issue. I don't think Soundbar directly has any issue as via Bluetooth , Soundbar plays awesome from a connected phone.
What would be your suggestion here ??? Do you suggest i change the HDMI cable which came with the soundbar (I don't see that its even gold plated )
Hi Jonah, I am a new subscriber. I just bought a Bose 900 sound bar, a 700 Bose bass unit and Bose 700 surround speakers. I assembled it over this past weekend. I had to choose between a HDMI Arc cable or a Digital Audio cable. I choose the latter. My LG TV has two HDMI Arc connections. After watching your video it sounds like the Arc cable is better. Please advise. Thank you. Craig
Thanks for the update! I was really bummed after your last video, glad you were wrong and appreciate the correction.
Can you use an hdmi splitter to give audio signals to a soundbar that only has an hdmi arc port, while the other leg from the splitter supplies a projector? Or does the soundbar have to have a regular hdmi input?
Nice video! I have one question, can i play dts:x and trueHD on lg oledc1 and Samsung HW-Q800A soundbar both have earc?
I don't know, I can do this with the same TV + an LG Sp8a Soundbar?
How do you hook up a Bose Soundwave machine (early 2000’s). It does not have an HDMI port, just the red and white patch cords.
I have a Hisense Tornado 65inch TV. And it believe doesn’t have eARC. Just the normal ARC. Suppose I get a Dolby Atmos Soundbar would I need something like an Apple TV box to make it decode Atmos? As in connect the eARC sound bar to Apple TV and use the pass through on the soundbar to connect to TV? Please share your thoughts.
So from what I can understand is in order to get the best audio the tv port must be earc as well as device such as soundbar? Or as long as tv is earc it will be just as fine?