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ARC (audio return channel)

TankTop

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Some integrated amps are coming out with an ARC HDMI input but no pass through HDMI, if hooked up to a TV and a high quality HDMI is plugged into a different HDMI port on the TV with the ARC HDMI send that signal to the integrated amp? If not what’s the point?
 

gvl

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TVs are "smart" these days, ARC is mainly there to send audio from streaming video sources or broadcast channels to surround sound receivers. It's not guaranteed the TV will pass through audio from another HDMI input to the ARC one, but I suspect some (most?) do.
 
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