There’s something very, very compelling about having every single song, photo, movie, and TV show I own or have access to available to me on any device wherever I am. Which is why we ditched the TiVo, moved to streaming apps, sold off the DVD collection, and put everything into the cloud and NAS servers. While quality is still very important to me (hence the desire for 4K, Dolby Vision, and Dolby Atmos), simplicity and convenience have become huge drivers for me these days, especially with a wife and two kids who don’t care how things work - they just want to watch what they want to watch when they want to watch without having to have a master’s degree to do it. I’ve got a Sonos Arc on order and, if I can get Atmos out of it through the Apple TV 4K and Vizio E-Series TV (a big if at the moment), then I plan on replacing the receiver and current speaker setup with the Arc, the Sub, and a pair of One SLs as surrounds (which I can get power to easier than I could run speaker wires to regular surrounds). While I keep a BD player hooked up to the TV, I honestly don’t remember the last time we used it (it’s there more as a backup / just in case).Ĭurrent audio setup is an older Onkyo THX receiver and a 3.1 speaker setup (L/C/R/Sub) simply because I haven’t been able to figure out a decent way to run surrounds that my wife would be happy with in the 12 years we’ve lived in this house.

Mostly via the usual streaming apps, but also in large part via my movie collection ripped, stored, and played via a local Plex server. Really Long Version: 99.9% of my viewing these days comes from an Apple TV 4K.

Short Version: Can anyone out there who has their movie collections ripped to a Plex server and using Apple TV 4K speak to the experience they’ve had with Arc (or Beam / Playbar if connected via HDMI ARC)? I’m concerned / curious about how this combination works with differing audio formats / codecs.

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