Shield would not be able to play a file stored locally or on a connected drive directly. For the Shield though, it looks like it means you would need an app on the Shield that supports TrueHD. For a TV, pass through just means than if TrueHD comes through on an HDMI input, then it can pass it through to whatever is connected on it’s eARC port, as Ken describled.

Nvidia Shield also has TrueHD ‘pass-through’ capability.and I don’t really know what that means in this context, for a media player like Shield. Many of us have gotten HDFury’s Arcana as a means to extracting the audio from the source and sending it directly to the Arc, bypassing the TV for audio. One word of advice, a lot of users are finding that their TV restricts some of the audio content, or adds processing delays to the audio before it gets to the Arc. So yes, your Shield sends data for HDMI to one of your TVs HDMI inputs, and audio is then sent by the TV over eARC to the Sonos Arc.

Sounds like Shield can handle it fine, and your TV is suppose to handle it.Īs for your question about the connection, eARC stands for Enhanced Audio Return Channel, meaning audio is returning in the opposite direction from normal HDMI. If there is downsampling going on, it would happen in Shield or your TV, and I don’t know if that’s the case. If it receives an atmos signal (either TrueHD or dolby digital +, it will play it. The Arc isn’t going to downsample anything like that. would I get lossless Atmos if I connected the eArc port on the TV to the Sonos Arc and then the Nvidia Shield to a separate HDMI port on the TV? However the Sonos Arc only has a single HDMI connection and the LG CX only has a single eArc HDMI connection. Without an Nvidia Shield the Sonos Arc downsamples the audio stream and removes the Atmos metadata so it becomes regular Dolby Digital 5.1. I want to stream Atmos TrueHD movies from my PC however some research suggests that I will need an Nvidia Shield to allow lossless TrueHD Atmos. I have an LG OLED CX TV with a Sonos Arc.

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