Phillips B97 HDR passthrough

[Richyvrlimited]

Hi

I have a Phillips B97 soundbar, which frankly sounds epic, documentation is beyond terrible tho. This is connected via eARC to eARC to a Phillips 43PUS8555.

Connected to a standard HDMI port is an nVidia Shield Pro

Sound quality is superb and Dolby Vision HDR etc all work as expected & look great, though in Plex and Disney+ I've noticed some audio sync issues at times.

In addition any uncompressed audio is not passed through to the soundbar & I get silent films, or just PCR 2ch audio

According to the B97 documentation it support Dolby vision / HDR passthrough. So I tried connecting the Shield to the soundbar directly. This resolves any audio issues, however HCR / Dolby vision is not passed through.

Is there a trick to get the passthrough working? I've tried Shield>B97-eARC - then B97 HDMI>TV with no change.

[TEKNOPUG]

Are you sure the Phillips B97 is not just 4K passthrough?

[Richyvrlimited]

TEKNOPUG said:

Are you sure the Phillips B97 is not just 4K passthrough?

Nope, Like I said the manual is pretty dreadful, below is copy/pasted from the website

https://www.philips.co.uk/c-p/B97_10/fidelio-sound...

Video

Video Enhancement
4K Video Pass-through
Dolby Vision
HDR10
HDR10+
HLG

Doesn't explicitly state that Dolby Vision has passthrough, but why else mention it if it doesn't

[TEKNOPUG]

Soundbar is a bit of a red herring in so much as it should work with Shield connected to TV. Have you checked for firmware updates for the TV?

[Richyvrlimited]

TEKNOPUG said:

Soundbar is a bit of a red herring in so much as it should work with Shield connected to TV. Have you checked for firmware updates for the TV?

Nothing for the TV. There is a firmware update for the soundbar, but I'm extremely hesitant to apply as other owners have complained it bricking the satellite speakers.

[TEKNOPUG]

Richyvrlimited said:

TEKNOPUG said:

Soundbar is a bit of a red herring in so much as it should work with Shield connected to TV. Have you checked for firmware updates for the TV?

Nothing for the TV. There is a firmware update for the soundbar, but I'm extremely hesitant to apply as other owners have complained it bricking the satellite speakers.

So is the audio issue only with content via Shield?

[Richyvrlimited]

TEKNOPUG said:

So is the audio issue only with content via Shield?

Not tried from another device to be honest, the shield is a PLEX server which is hosting the content with uncompressed audio, don't have any other content I can play from other devices to test.

I could try playing direct from USB actually, will give it a whirl

[TEKNOPUG]

What about all the other apps on the Shield?

[Richyvrlimited]

TEKNOPUG said:

What about all the other apps on the Shield?

same deal unfortunately, no Dolby vision etc

can't test the reverse / uncompressed audio as none of the streaming services offer it unsurprisingly!