Did you have to do anything to get the Windows App to work, it just crashes on my  Machine when it trys to find the Speakers.     Thanks Paul ... View more

My 650 updated, but cant hear anything different yet. nothing obvious. ... View more

Trying now ... View more

My R1’s are on 3117, still crappy low volume in surround sound. ... View more

Good to see the old gang back. Not really sure if mine ever worked, mine are still sitting there looking pretty, but sometimes if i concerntrate really hard i catch snippet of sounds coming from my R1's.     ... View more

You have removed the optical cable as it was working ok for me before hand with the optical cable, just not over Wifi, When I connect with only Wifi now, I have surround and and only need to use one remote. So all my Wifi issues seem resolved. ... View more

Thats sounds good. cant wait to get home and test.   Thanks everyone for keeping the pressure on the Samsung. ... View more

Yep buy an optical cable and you will get surround sound, but you have to use the small remote for the sound bar to adjust the sound.   Pau  ... View more

*****ers ... View more

Sounds like a really positive visit, I had the vision of him turning up and miraculously the issues disappeared. 😀 ... View more

Positive start, is he a Samsung employee. ... View more

Facebook live the event 😀   ... View more

can we all come round and watch 😀   ... View more

its not perfect but better over wifi 3111.2 ... View more

Just got an update to the soundbar, really think it helped with the rears        😬 😬 😬 😬 😬 😬 😬 😬 😬 😬 😬 😬 😬 😬 😬 ... View more

I tire you universal remote control steps, I just get th icon of the two phono connecters when I use the volume control on the remote. Tried it multiple times. ... View more

No I mean when you play the 5.1 surround sound test file would not play the sub channel. So when it does and you only hear sound coming out of the sub, you know it's splitting the channels correctly.  On another note I have one of the Virgin 4K boxes connected to my TV not sure why I forget that. Set the sound to DD put on Mad Max and the surround is coming through s perfect no drop outs just really nice surround. ... View more

I do have a hdmi cable in port 4 and going to the sound bar. So I guess I have arc enabled. but the clincher for me is the bass bin, as soon as I hear the single .1 channel I know it's working in surround. 3.1 or 5.1 but as soon as you get that low hum, you know it's splitting the sound. ... View more

I said use a usb stick as my PC video card only outputs in stereo. So I play the mkv file off the usb. If I had Xbox or blue ray player I would use that, but still Amazon and Netflix off the tv sound great in 5.1 but I don't have an external source connected other than my PC. ... View more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yeEPkcwOHI please don't play the video after this one so embarrassing ... View more

uploading a video to youtube so you can hear the bass bin and the rears kick in,   I know the 5.1 is working when the Bass bin works. ... View more

Your wrong 😃 Make sure hdmi audio format is PCM audio format is Dolby digital  and run the 5.1 surround test of a USN stick. My bass bin goes crazy and the surrounds are so loud. ... View more

So as I'm the original poster on this thread, thought I better test all the theory's. I can't seem to get the single remote working, can't follow the steps ☹️ But decided to try the PCM option as I've been using the bitstream, I put on black sails season 4 episode 7 using an optical cable and the surround sound  is so much more vivid. Sound greats now.        ... View more

Nicked this from the American forum just now interesting quote about the lip sync and surround Quailty.   I just go my two R5's on the K650 soundbar running through a 2016 8-Series.  My setup is with an optical caple (D.IN) and PCM, and this setup works well.     I'll start off by saying this setup does sound like true 5.1 to me even though my understanding is that PCM is only capably of processing 2.1 audio through optical.   My theory is the television is delivering 2.1 audio via PCM directly to the soundbar and sending the two rear channels discretely to the rear channels over WiFi, resulting in true 5.1 through PCM.  So even though the speakers are "grouped"... the 2.1 and the rears are actually working independent of each other.  This would explain the limitations of being able to adjust the volume.  The sound quality in spotify while playing music was just as good as anything I have ever heard, even from multi-thousand dollar home setups... true 5.1 multi-channel could not be more obvious.  And to be absolutely clear, switching away from PCM in this configuration (to something such as bitscream/dolby) results in a very obvious loss of fidelity in the rear channels and also causes audio sync issues. For example, I was watching Daredevil on Netflix and you could hear cars driving by in the background (really emmersive!)... and switching to Bitstream/Dolby made this go away.  So, yes, I am satisfield with the Optical/D.IN method.  But a few negatives I can't seem to work around!      1. Have to use two remotes because the smart remote will not handle the volume. 2. Adjusting the rear or center volumn either thru the TV or thru the multi-room app boots the sounbar off the TV and and into TV speaker mode... and you have to go into the sound settings and reconnect them.     So I got tired of using two remotes and tried using the HDMI ARC method as carefully described by our friends at the EU forums.  This failed... I got almost non-existent audio from the rear channel and often no audio at all.  It seems broken to me, so back to the optical method.   Has anyone tried to set the TV smart remote to control the soundbar?  (go to page 10 of the user soundbar manual HW-K650_K651_ZA_170111.PDF).  By holding the sound button for 5 seconds on the soundbar remote, it will set “ON - TV REMOTE”  for volume to be controlled by the TV remote.    I will give this a shot this evening.     ... View more

Thanks Lee. ... View more

What version did the upgrade too.  Ver 12. Still having the low sound over wifi with this version  ... View more

I use the apps to create the 5.1 and to adjust  the sound volume have the rears on plus 6 and the. Sound bar on lowest sound setting. Sound bar 3109   rears. 3112     ... View more

I have excatly the same setup as you and it works with Netflix but I still have the hdmi cable connected to the arc channel,     hdmi audio = bitstream audio format = Dolby digital ... View more

Set up the two rears in stereo in the app. up the sound on both of them to Max. Then break the stereo setup and re create the surround sound. ... View more