I'm not exactly a home theater genius, but I've hooked up enough video game consoles that I feel like I have a grasp on things. Last year I bought a decent home theater rig. Big 4k tv, 4k player, 5.1 soundbar. At first I had it so the 4k player sent video to the tv, and the sound came out the soundbar. I don't remember exactly, maybe an optical cable? Anyway, this caused the sound to delay by a fraction of a second, which drove me absolutely insane. I spent days tweaking the audio delay settings to no avail.
I then routed the 4k player through my soundbar's HDMI, which I then cabled the soundbar out to the tv through the ARC output. Blu Ray works wonderful. Sound was perfect. But apparently 4k won't go through ARC?
I wired it exactly how one tech forum said (4k -> hdmi ->soundbar -> ARC hdmi -> tv) which is how the blu rays work. One other tech forum says 4k doesn't go through ARC at all. And yet another lone guy said he fixed it by using 8k eARC cables instead of 4k HDMI. This one had no followup or confirmation.
So surely there's a way to put my 4k through my soundbar ARC to my tv? Or did I waste a whole buncha money? I just really want to watch Into the Spiderverse and Fury Road and John Wick 3 in 4k glory and shake the walls with my speakers.
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Also make sure the Blu-ray player is sending audio out in a proper format. I'm not sure without model numbers, but if the TV is having to do some extra encoding to deal with whatever the Blu-ray is sending for audio, that can certainly cause delays.
If you're bored and want to attach some model numbers I can play a bit more though.
1) Does the soundbar support 4K passthrough? It should but budget models may not.
2) Cables actually matter for 4K. "High speed" certified cables will do 1080p and some 4K signals. "Premium High Speed" certified cables can handle 4K HDR. Since you are bouncing the signal two steps, you will need two "Premium High Speed" cables - 4K player to soundbar, and soundbar to TV.
You can't give someone a pirate ship in one game, and then take it back in the next game. It's rude.
ARC sucks.
I can link the models if you're curious but yeah I bought it all specifically to connect to each other.
I have some eARC cables arriving tomorrow so we'll see!
Edit; like I know it is at least trying to handshake. A 4k disc will open and start to load and then it kicks me to "no signal" on my tv.
Edit2: I mean it's also not the end of the world, blu ray still looks and sounds awesome. But man I bought 4k I wanna use 4k.
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