Adding HDMI ports to your TV .... and soundbar setup?

JustAnotherSaver

Gracias.

Hopefully this turns out to be a decent purchase.

Even better if it stops me needing subtitles

jsmith9

why? does the sonos soundbar have an auto-translate facility ? 

Le_Kirk

JustAnotherSaver said:

Will there be a difference in audio quality if I go the optical route? And what functionality will be lost? 
Its no major deal to have the soundbar connected via hdmi so I can do that. Still curious about the hdmi hub situation I asked about. I may just remove whatever I don't need and plug in whatever I do but would still like to know. 
And thanks for the info. 

Uptown_Boy said:

Shouldn't be any loss of audio quality using optical. As to functionality - I don't know. I suspect they're meaning the ability for the sound bar to turn On/Off in conjunction with the TV - which means you'd instead need to turn each On/Off separately.

I agree with what @Uptown_Boy stated.  I recently had an issue with my sound bar (it turned into a doorstop) and had to use the audio cable.  Sound quality (at least to my ears) was the same.  The loss of functionality was the ability to turn it on/off with the TV/Sky remote and adjust the volume with same.  I did sort it by doing the sort of thing I don't normally do (take power lead out, leave, reconnect) ad all was well.  Don't ask me!

JustAnotherSaver

jsmith9 said:

why? does the sonos soundbar have an auto-translate facility ? 

Who said anything about translating?

Uptown_Boy

JustAnotherSaver said:

jsmith9 said:

why? does the sonos soundbar have an auto-translate facility ? 

Who said anything about translating?

Pardon?

 

jsmith9

JustAnotherSaver said:

jsmith9 said:

why? does the sonos soundbar have an auto-translate facility ? 

Who said anything about translating?

You said it would stop you needing subtitles so I assumed it would auto translate for you

JustAnotherSaver

jsmith9 said:

JustAnotherSaver said:

jsmith9 said:

why? does the sonos soundbar have an auto-translate facility ? 

Who said anything about translating?

You said it would stop you needing subtitles so I assumed it would auto translate for you

Well while i do have a fair few martial arts movies with subtitles, my comment about the subtitles was relating to me being deaf

Although this is the internet a.k.a. the land of the literal, I am not officially deaf. I just struggle at times. Not sure if it's a certain range or pitch or whatever. I got sick of having to rewind a program/film just to see what was said as i didn't catch it so i just watch things with subtitles these days.

When i was looking for soundbars i saw some that claimed to have a feature where it enhanced the dialogue or whatever but i don't know how well they did it in reality.

jsmith9

Ah, yes sorry for the assumption - I assumed you were a foreign film addict!

Have you though of bluetooth headphones? I use them when the dialogue is not that clear and they do make a significant difference compared with speakers.

JustAnotherSaver

jsmith9 said:

Ah, yes sorry for the assumption - I assumed you were a foreign film addict!

Have you though of bluetooth headphones? I use them when the dialogue is not that clear and they do make a significant difference compared with speakers.

To be honest, yes i have actually considered headphones.

But then i thought 1) i don't know if that stops the audio playing in the living room - not great when more than 1 of us is sitting down to watch TV and 2) I don't particularly want to sit there watching a film with headphones on and the wife next to me and then one of us goes to say something to the other.

So i decided against it.

debitcardmayhem

I don't the BT on that telly works with Sounds, just KB/Mouse