21-10-2019 02:20 PM
Hi, since few days I am an owner of a Samsung HW-Q80R soundbar in pair with Philips 55OLED854 SmartTV. Searching the Internet back and forth I found no certain answer to the following problems:
06-01-2020 09:20 PM
06-01-2020 09:28 PM
cheers guys. i read all the reviews and they banged on about e-arc support ...how really strange & confusing. ah well, they've just lost my business! ...looks like I'll have to put off the upgrade for another year!! 😞
06-01-2020 09:29 PM - last edited 06-01-2020 09:30 PM
My recommendation, go with 9 or 10 series LG soundbar by Meridian, or buy a Sony. They are both just as good.
EDIT: and to what I know, they have had eARC since summer 2019.
06-01-2020 09:43 PM - last edited 06-01-2020 09:46 PM
the SL10YG doesn't support e-arc either, and doesn't have the sound quality of the hw-q80r (the speakers are much smaller), and the Sony HT-ST5000 is coming up to 2 years old now, and doesn't support e-arc either. All the reviews complimented the Atmos quality on the hw-q80r, but without the ability to pass atmos through the arc channel is ridiculous! I'm not wasting £1000 on old outdated tech! shame on you Samsung!!
(sorry, it looks like the Sony had the e-arc f/w update, but anyway, has no options to add rear speakers at later date)
06-01-2020 09:45 PM
08-01-2020 07:18 AM
Where is Update? its 2020's:)
08-01-2020 04:47 PM - last edited 08-01-2020 04:52 PM
@DonnyAtmos wrote:Where is Update? its 2020's:)
It is where we cant find it.
Jokes aside, I was speaking to a lawyer buddy of mine, and he said that this could be a good class action case against all the reviewers who said eARC will be available, or is supported on these soundbars. And based on their testimonies, charges could be brought up against Samsung on it. The only catch, there has to be atleast 40 of us alleging to bring the charges up against the reviewers.
Legal fee alone would hurt these reviewers enough for them to never lie again.
08-01-2020 04:54 PM
Let's not be hasty,
let's just all shell out a load more money,
like Samsung want us to on the latest 2020
bars
08-01-2020 05:00 PM
Not that much more, considering that we have a valid case which will make the reviewers and samsung corp pay.
10-01-2020 01:06 PM - last edited 10-01-2020 01:47 PM by AntS ) in
@slim_shady wrote:
sorry, I'm really confused now. was just about to purchase the LG C9 and an hw-q80r ...does the soundbar support e-arc or not? I want to play atmos enabled movies through the TV Plex app and have the atmos sent back through the hdmi arc port....
If you have an LG C9, the soundbar doesn't need to have eARC, which it hasn't. LG comes with a 2020 line, which does have it and because of this, they probably won't give the older models the earc through a firmware update. If that is the case (and that's 90% sure), Samsung will follow this pattern.
Anyway....You have an C9 which does have eARC and that is all you need. Atmos signal can be passed throught, through a normal ARC, only not lossless and compressed and wrapped in the DD+ signal. eARC sends it lossless through to you soundbar/avr. So the only thing you will really need is a soundbar which is Atmos comptible and you will have the best signal Atmos can deliver.