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by bzzzt
1071 days ago
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Yeah, the industry is pushing new standards just a bit beyond what makes sense in a normal living room. On the positive side, you can buy good high-end stuff from a few years ago for less ;) I hear a bit too often about burned out HDMI boards on Denon receivers. Hope my X3000 will last a few more years. |
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My take is that the more expensive your hardware is the faster HDMI ports burn out. I've had some cheap TVs gifted to me (one reason I haven't upgraded) that had 2 HDMI ports and never had trouble w/ the ports (1) had excellent value engineering and built in speakers better than many soundbars and eventually had the backlight, (2) is a Samsung that just sucks.
I think a high end Sony TV has 8 HDMI ports though you can have 7 ports burn out and still watch TV. My guess is that ports can have various levels of isolation to noxious electrical influences, USB ports are notoriously strong but I think many HDMI ports are under-engineered.
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The other trouble w/ Atmos is it makes no sense at all with smart speakers, headphones, etc. I have screwed around with HRTF tech and for me it works poorly. My Hololens 1 can localize sounds in the space around me very clearly but the fact that it creates matching visual cues must help. I've tried headphone surround in gaming and find it is an absolute joke: I can learn that "the sound must be above me because it sounds like I have a head cold" but it is not realistic at in most cases.
I just can't believe an Atmos mix rendered to headphones is going to approach the quality of a good stereo mix.