Don’t lose the remote Simon Cohen / Digital Trends The Sonos Arc also has just a single HDMI port. The Smart Soundbar 900 isn’t the only Atmos soundbar with this limitation. With other Dolby Atmos soundbars, like the Sony HT-A7000, you can connect a Blu-ray player or streaming media device to one of the soundbar’s HDMI inputs, thus bypassing your TV’s HDMI ARC limitations by sending the audio directly to the soundbar while the video is passed through to your TV. If your TV doesn’t support HDMI eARC (that’s most TVs that are older than two years), there’s just no way to deliver the highest-quality audio signal that the 900 is capable of handling, namely 24-bit, lossless Dolby Atmos in Dolby TrueHD. Depending on the number of HDMI devices you have and the number of inputs on your TV, it might even necessitate buying an HDMI switch.īut for the audio purists out there with older TVs, it creates another challenge. For most people, that’s going to be a small annoyance, as it forces you to give up one of your TV’s HDMI ports, and doesn’t provide you with a replacement. Speaking of HDMI, the 900 has just one HDMI port, which it uses to receive audio from your TV and to send control instructions back to the TV. The Smart Soundbar 900 delivers beautifully clear, room-filling sound.
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This is not to say that the 900 won’t deliver highly immersive sound when using optical - it will still sound great thanks to the company’s TrueSpace technology - you just can’t get the full Atmos experience without HDMI. Atmos is simply too bandwidth-hungry for an optical connection - it requires the fatter pipe of HDMI. If you use the optical cable, you won’t be able to send a Dolby Atmos signal to the soundbar even if your TV supports it. You can connect the Smart Soundbar 900 to your TV with an HDMI cable or an optical cable, and Bose includes both in the box. One port too few Simon Cohen / Digital Trends In its black guise, the 900 pretty much disappears into the background, but if you want your soundbar to make a visual statement as well as an audible one, it’s also available in white. It needs to be out in the open to make the most of those up-firing drivers. So even though the 900 is impressively short (2.29 inches tall) and could easily sit under most big-screen TVs, don’t put it there.
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