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.

[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

[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.

[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

[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!