With this audio format, your player decodes the soundtrack and sends it as uncompressed audio. If you don’t have any of the options above, then you’ll be forced to use PCM audio instead. If you’re lucky enough to have a Samsung player, you can change the output to re-encode to Dolby Digital, which will get you 5.1 surround sound. Sadly, both companies have pulled out of the player market, so unless you’ve got one already, you’ll find it hard to buy one. That sounds good in theory, but the bad news is that, to the best of our knowledge, only some Samsung and Oppo players have the option to re-encode DTS to Dolby. The only other way around the issue is if you have a Blu-ray player or Ultra HD Blu-ray player that supports similar options.
Note that only the Sonos Arc supports Dolby Atmos, so Beam owners will need to select Dolby Digital.
When you select either of these options, the Xbox will re-encode DTS sound as Dolby Digital and pass it through your TV to the Sonos soundbar. If you’ve got an Xbox One X or Xbox One S, then there’s an option in the Display & sound settings to change the digital audio output bitstream format to Dolby Digital or Dolby Atmos. Set your Blu-ray player to transcode to Dolby Digital Here, we’ll explain the different options. So, what can you do about it? The answer really depends on the type of kit that you have.
Sonos has said that with a focus on streaming, it’s decided to focus its efforts on Dolby sound formats, with the Arc supporting Dolby Atmos, Dolby TrueHD, Dolby Digital Plus and Dolby Digital.įor the most part, it’s a strategy that works until you try and play a Blu-ray that only has a DTS soundtrack, in which case you’ll probably find that you don’t get any sound. If you’ve got a Sonos soundbar, such as the Sonos Beam or Sonos Arc, then you may have run into one of the biggest limitations: no support for DTS sound.