I purchased my Samsung 4K 70" UN70NU6070 ffrom BestBuy during the holiday season, who was the only retailer selling it as a markdown to $549, so I couldn't albeit turn down the offer to get a good 4K Samsung TV for a pricetag with tax that was less than $600? I have another Samsung 4K TV in the house, a 55 inch, and it's an MU series that seemed to have played all my burned .mkv hollywood bluray movies that I recoded from 1080p to 4K UHD using a converting software that takes forever even if you have an Intel i7 4.2GHz processor, which I have and to say my 300 movie disk library took me literally years to upconvert, and while I have my movies recoded in 4K that I all personally converted myself and reduced the file size at the same time, my new 70" Samsung 4K 2018 model has been unable to push out the DTS HD Master Surround Sound lossless audio that is on the bluray, and I have the digital copy but it's is feeding 1080p content onto this TV and in that log it looks terrible.
The movie I'm watching is Fight Club, and no Hollywood has not released a Fight Club 4K Bluray version, yet. I would just enjoy watching my own movies that I spend years recoding and upconverting as I see fit, generally speaking I rarely travel for business and when I did Hotels good luck even being able to access your physical wireless NAS that you would connect with the USB 3.0 cord directly itself, it wouldn't even play or locate the files, and these were all the usual suspect manufacturers: LG, Sony, etc.
From what I see here you are either damned if you do and damned if you don't. The only workaround I can think of as everyone has stated is to reformat the content to an AAC or .mp3 container audio codec that would remove the 5.1 surround sound digitally encoded lossless sound, and while I have yet to purchase a 5.1 or 7.1 channel surround system, I wasn't going to go about decompressing and dilluting my movie collection content, especially when I had reduced the file size of each movie by a factor of 5, which still included the lossless audio that I was happy with.
I confess though with respect to watching my collection on a 4K SmartTV because since 2015 when I began this hobby, I didn't watch any of my transcoded movies on my previous Vizio 70" SmartTV because it couldn't play the 4K resolution nor the native burnt 1080p bluray because of audio code problems as well, so I came across the ZTE Spro 2 Android Smart Projector that coupled with Kodi 16.1 Jarvis sideloaded onto the device, I can play everything on my NAS and I have a bluetooth stereo system that syncs and I throw the image onto my light grey painted vaulted wall right in front of my bed atop my sliding mirrored closet doors. The image must be close to 120" in size, and with the stereo system playing the sound, it is as close to watching anything at home that almost resembles exactly what it feels like from watching these movies in a movie theater, still not in the comfort of lying back on your bed watching them on your wall, which I prefer the expereince 10 times more than watching it in a closely cramped theater I have to pay roughly $20 to watch?
