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10 hours ago
Any official word in here? The silence is deafening. The files say different things, reviewers and sellers told us different things, and nobody here says anything.
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2 weeks ago
I was told the same, but there is nothing here, not even a response from anyone. This thread is four pages now, and nobody has said a word yet.
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3 weeks ago
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I just got the additional eARC update for my C9, that can send 8-channel PCM, in addition to DTS-MA and True Audio HD over eARC.
And still no peep in this thread. I love how they treat it almost like it doesn't exist. Nothing on the "press" either, despite sending the HEX of the firmware files to various outlets. I guess they know that they won't get the next sample if they raise their voices.
Great.
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05-06-2020
12:42 PM
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I find it fascinating that Samsung representatives are giving out different replies to each one person who asks here. I wonder what that tells about Samsung, and what it means having the names of our products being found inside the firmware of the Q90R.
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28-05-2020
11:08 AM
I'm thinking of doing exactly the same and going for the LG SN11RG.
Seems more powerful, has proper Google Assistant implementation, eARC, and incredible things (for Samsung), like room calibration in a $1400+ audio product.
It also seems to be more powerful, and have proper eARC from the start. I will wait to check some reviews, but it will be seriously bye bye Samsung after this.
It has only double HDMI inputs, but it doesn't matter as long as the TV and the Soundbar have eARC, as pluging things on the TV enables the best visual features (VRR, HGIG etc), with zero compromises on audio.
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28-05-2020
08:56 AM
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Why can't they say it here? And why are the models mentioned in the Q90r firmware?
Also eARC is basically using the Ethernet part of HDMI 2.0 for audio return, it's not a hardware feature as long as there is HDMI 2.0.
The responses you got were typical Samsung. Anything to deny software support as fast as possible.
Sony and LG soundbars from 2017 got eARC. They were saying to reviewers these would get too. Truly disgusting.
NEVER AGAIN.
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23-05-2020
08:44 PM
I guess they are just waiting for us to blindly shut up. Reviewers won't speak of this because otherwise Samsung would not send them review copies. This is disgusting.
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20-05-2020
11:19 PM
They would probably retain a lot of us as customers if they did that.
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18-05-2020
11:43 AM
I don't know if the lack of any communication from Samsung about this is bad or good Anybody else did any digging in the firmware files?
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16-05-2020
02:31 PM
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It is frustrating when you see that it's basically the same software platform for all of them, but they just don't try to enable it. If there was an beta program, I am certain that most of us would be glad to help.
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15-05-2020
11:39 AM
I understood the Soundbar, not the TVs. I get what you mean. The sound bar works with Dolby Vision as far as I have seen, the only real issue it has is eARC.
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15-05-2020
11:30 AM
I thought they were simply forwarding any video signal and just processing audio.
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15-05-2020
11:07 AM
I am not even aware of any Dolby Vision issue yet. What's up with that? I am really annoyed with eARC, since I have a C9, and I have to be either between getting 5.1 audio via the TV, or lose HDMI VRR and advanced video features if I connect the PC and my Playstation on the Soundbar itself. eARC would solve everything, since the TV already supports it (and they are supposed to fix the Dolby MAT issues soon, at least LG made a commitment to that).
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15-05-2020
10:45 AM
Apparently there were rumours leaked to some reviewers that we might get this alongside this generation of sounders (which makes sense with a casual look at the update files). Any response from Samsung?
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15-05-2020
10:16 AM
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Did you have a direct quote on this, or was it said privately? Seeing the files from the HW-Q90r compared to the HW-N950 firmware, it even seems that the update might be already there, but I wouldn't have the courage to flash, as I don't trust them to. stop the flashing if the file is not appropriate.
https://eu.community.samsung.com/t5/Audio-Video/After-the-HW-Q90r-eARC-update-I-did-a-little-digging-in-the/m-p/1734866
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13-05-2020
10:17 AM
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So, zero response at all? Why not make customers happy ONCE with your update schedule Samsung, it looks like your actual engineers have already done the work.
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12-05-2020
03:31 PM
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It is truly terrible, especially telling reviewers that it would be supported eventually. If I wasn't afraid to brick mine, I would attempt to flash it. The problem is that I have so few trust in them that I'm afraid they have no checks and the flash might go through and brick my soundbar.
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12-05-2020
12:10 PM
I would like to add that the Q90r update seems to explicitly mention other sound bars in it.
https://eu.community.samsung.com/t5/Audio-Video/After-the-HW-Q90r-eARC-update-I-did-a-little-digging-in-the/m-p/1734866
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12-05-2020
11:34 AM
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Top is the info.txt from the latest HW-N950, bottom is the text from the eARC update of HW-Q90r.
As you can see it's just generic Tizen. The hardware in both sound bards is basically identical, and whatever differences there are, shouldn't influence eARC which is basically a software feature.
Things get even more interesting when we open the HW-Q90r firmware file with a HEX editor. The HW-N950 (SAT-HKA18WWC) is literally mentioned in the file headers.
I see this as a huge f*ck you from Samsung. There was an implicit promise that the HW-N950 would get eARC, and seeing how it seems to be literally baked in the firmware (it's just a Tizen distro with software features after all), it feels wrong doubly so.
Are we getting this update or not?
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