indeed, and I still havent decided how worked up to be about the Theatre and its lack of DTS support.

My Panasonic UB820 is set to output PCM (up to 7.1) for any DTS track, and playing some of my legacy DTS regular (non UHD) Blu-rays to the Theatre seems ok.

As for new UHD discs, and how many use DTS-X as opposed to Dolby Atmos, I'm not sure. Time will tell I guess.

Hi,

I've just done a test on one of the few non-Atmos films I have at the moment. I tested Gravity in BR quality.

Now natively, this should be played as DTS-HD but the BeoApp Signal is showing 5.1. I cant tell if this is piping an SD Dolby format (one of the back-tracks I had in the download) or if it is emulating DTS-HD? And to be hones, Gravity is a film with few booms and bangs to judge.

It sounded OK, but Im not 100% certain if it was the genre of the film or the decoding but sounded a little like 4.0 sound-ish? If it were not for the BL90s, Im also not sure if the LFE channel was delivering discretely.

My view is something like the UB820 should be able to handle both DTS and Atmos but as you suggest, if it is instructed to pump-out 7.1 from a DTS sound format, the Theatre should pick that up and distribute the sound as either 5.1 or 7.1 PCM.

An ideal sound card for the Theatre would be one with both Atmos and DTS encoded natively?

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Just to add, Ive just interrogated the my Kaleidescape system on the audio porting.

So it looks like zero support on the Theatre for DTS so the Kaleidescape (and probably all decent BR-Players), pump-out what they can handshake with up to 7.1PCM 192/24

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Hard to know if exactly what the app is showing in these cases, from my limited experience

Just played the UHD Pulp Fiction disc on the UB820, which I've set to PCM any DTS content.  The discs main track (and what I have selected) is DTS HD Master Audio 5.1.......the B&O app shows the signal info as 7.1 and PCM.

Whether that 7.1 is due to something the UB820 is doing (quiet possible) or the app's "fault" is hard to discern.

Sounds good though, and sounded fine when I watched the disc last weekend.

@Sandyb

It must be PCM, when it arrives at the BST, since the UHD player is doing the decoding.

How is you speaker setup - 5.1 or 7.1?

MM

On a side note right now.

I just received the notification for the new beta version of the app.

Haven’t installed it yet - will have to wait untill tomorrow….it is too late for playing ?

Seems to be some goodies there:

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MM

my first BeoRemote One is the one I purchased with my BeoSound Theatre.
after a month of normal use (television in the evening) the remote is prompting me to change the batteries. The remote was brand new and I used the included batteries.
Is this normal or is it perhaps due to it ran software updates when I first took it in use?
It seems excessive to change batteries every month but I don’t know whether this is normal?

What’s your experience?

I find the batteries in the BR1 variable - even with market-leading brands over those cheap ones that always ship with OEM products.

I've seen BR1 last 4-6 weeks and sometimes over 6 months ++.

I think the Bluetooth side of it (with 2-way control) eats a lot of power inherently.

On the "will DTS be added?" question, my previous soundbar (Sony HT-ST5000) it shipped with only Dolby Atmos capability but a software update after a few months enabled DTS support. Not saying the same will occur with the Theatre but it appears possible as software rather than a hardware addition.