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LPCM is bitstream, no?

Darkazcura, you're on the money but failed to mention this key point: Bitstream takes more HDMI bandwidth and more processing power than pass-through.

No need to go that deep. Atmos carries 5 or 7 base channels, and then the appropriate object-based information for the atmos receiver to decode. My home cinema receiver has the number, location, and distance of all the different speakers and can thus place the sound most accurately...

There's nothing to prove. Where do you think the processing layer sits in an object-based surround format??? If it were simple direct stereo that would be one thing, but not with the higher level audio formats.

You can also install VLC on your AppleTV to play whatever files you want...... however not with audio pass-through... Which turns the entire home cinema equation on its head. Pass-through takes no overhead, it actually relieves overhead from the device. The decoding happens on the receiver...

If I had the money, I would buy this in a heartbeat

Apple needs to get its head out of its ass and stop playing this game of restricting basic functionality because it could, in some theoretical realm, compromise another income source. I'm pretty sure this is what apple is doing here, there is no other excuse that makes sense. The products are...

I'd go with the larger ones

How big is your room?

How high are your ceilings?

It doesn't matter at all lol I'm glad I went with the 6.5" instead of the 8" The Atmos effect isn't as strong as I had anticipated. Had I not planned attic work anyway, I would have regretted getting in-ceiling speakers, but since it's a permanent addition to the house, and doing it now would...

I think I'm going to chuck the 4th gen AppleTV and return to my 3rd gen. The WDTV media player is still the best media player ever made, and as I'm only on a 1080p TV, I should be fine

Google is Spyware. Everything google "offers" is spyware. Fuck google, fuck the surveillance capitalist business model; the dystopian hydra. I just did an update on the AppleTV, and it still only sends PCM and not pass-through audio. Apple's Airplay should be lossless, although its 48kHz...

Join me in hating all of tech. The AppleTV would be legitimately good if it didn't require logging in to do anything, and supported native pass-through (or even non-native, except apple drew up a berlin wall around their precious devices, so you're stuck with what you're force-fed).

improvements for apple, not for you.

I wanted to like the nVidia shield TV Pro right up until I unboxed it, hooked it up, and got forced into a google login before I could do anything. Instant dealbreaker and into the proverbial trash. In fairness, to load VLC, I had to sign in with my AppleID. Man do I miss simple administrator...

I am playing blu-rays. VLC can connect to my local NAS. I want the decoding to happen on my receiver, b/c Yamaha knows what they're doing, and i'm not sure how/where their room EQ is implemented (analog or digital side).

Why would you even reply to this thread if it doesn't apply to you? That's what I want to do, however AppleTV refuses to do pass-through.

The type of response expected from an apple fanatic... DTS, DTS-HD, DTS-HD MA, Dolby TrueHD, DTS:X, FLAC, AAC....

the issue is how audio is output.... it's processed rather than sent pass-through (which requires like zero hardware overhead). It's a limitation of the AppleTV that apple implemented after taking who knows what drugs