This might be off-topic, but I'd like to use this opportunity to complain that basically every modern home theater setup has like hundreds of milliseconds of audio latency.
Decoding, distributing, processing, and rendering across all the involved components can take in the order of 100's of ms. HDMI 1.3 and up has had a mechanism for equipment to communicate internal delays so audio remains time-aligned with the rendered image.
Some devices will also have manual overrides for this. If you are experiencing significant drift something is likely borked in the setup.
Is that the same 'every' that have wireless speakers or 'soundbars'?
Because I'm pretty sure mine doesn't. I hate it, I'm the first to point it out or only one bothered by it. I haven't done anything (other than run Audyssey) to stop it, it just hasn't been a problem as far as I can tell.
And I know you're exaggerating, anyone would notice 'hundreds of milliseconds', but still.
I get that audio latency matters for say phone calls (and I can rant about that getting only worse over time), but does it matter for home theater as long as it's known and adjusted for? Maybe it's a bit annoying if you pause and the audio doesn't stop right away, but otherwise, give me a 2 second audio latency and I don't care as long as you've got a/v sync so the sound and the picture line up where I'm sitting.
Decoding, distributing, processing, and rendering across all the involved components can take in the order of 100's of ms. HDMI 1.3 and up has had a mechanism for equipment to communicate internal delays so audio remains time-aligned with the rendered image.
Some devices will also have manual overrides for this. If you are experiencing significant drift something is likely borked in the setup.