Re: Good sound bar that will work well with an Apple TV and voiceover

2016-11-25 Thread Mary Otten
Hi Larry, Yes, that does work for voiceover, your workaround solution that is. But for other things, like the fire TV, which I don't have or the Roku stick, which I do have, that is not going to work, since those things don't offer Bluetooth or headphones output oor connection. This still makes

Re: Good sound bar that will work well with an Apple TV and voiceover

2016-11-25 Thread Larry Thacker Jr.
I have the same issue with my AV receiver. In my case, I know it’s because of the sound “sleeping” when there’s no input. Voiceover doesn’t generate enough sound to keep it alive. If there’s a setting to change this behavior there’s nothing in the manual to indicate it. I doubt there’s enoug

Re: Good sound bar that will work well with an Apple TV and voiceover

2016-11-25 Thread Mary Otten
OK, well I looked up the sound bar suspect sheet, hoping that there might be something in there about the amplifiers and some kind of delayed switching or somesuch thing. But there is no mention of anything like that at all. Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 25, 2016, at 12:39 PM, Scott Granados

Re: Good sound bar that will work well with an Apple TV and voiceover

2016-11-25 Thread Scott Granados
Ok, mine is much more complicated, it has 6 different surround modes, an input selector, arrow keys, volume and some other keys to assign. There’s also a screen on the front, I need to get you that part number I’ll do that. I’m not sure I had to set anything specifically in my setup, I just wir

Re: Good sound bar that will work well with an Apple TV and voiceover

2016-11-25 Thread Donna Goodin
ted to the tv I have and then that is connected to my >>>> speakers via optical and works great, I've been thinking about the sonos >>>> play bar to allow my sonos play 1's to be able to output the audio from >>>> the aTV. >>>> Might have to have a look

Re: Good sound bar that will work well with an Apple TV and voiceover

2016-11-25 Thread Mary Otten
Hi Scott, There is no menu, and apparently no way of adjusting any sort of sleep mode, if it exists. There is an anything except volume and some 3-D thing and a Bluetooth pairing button, and the on off button. No way to get a menu. Mary Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 24, 2016, at 3:16 PM, Scott

Re: Good sound bar that will work well with an Apple TV and voiceover

2016-11-25 Thread Mary Otten
Hi Scott, does that Sony sound bar you have have the sleep setting you referred to? And did you happen to find it's model number? It looks like Best Buy currently has four sound bars from Sony. Mary Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 24, 2016, at 3:16 PM, Scott Granados wrote: > > Mary, I’ve got t

Re: Good sound bar that will work well with an Apple TV and voiceover

2016-11-25 Thread Mary Otten
There is no chopping problem with the TV internal speakers on either TV. Of course it sounds god awful, but the voiceover or Roku audio does not chop. I'm not sure about any sort of sleep setting regarding the sound bar internal menu. I don't even know if it has an internal menu, since if it doe

Re: Good sound bar that will work well with an Apple TV and voiceover

2016-11-25 Thread Scott Granados
To add even more confusion to this, I’m using Samsung flat screens as well, so we have the same brand television. Do you get a loss of audio from the flat screens internal speakers or just to the sound bar itself? You might have some sort of sleep setting where the sound bar goes in to a power

Re: Good sound bar that will work well with an Apple TV and voiceover

2016-11-25 Thread Mary Otten
OK, further to my sound bar issue. I did not correctly describe how the sound bar was connected to the TV. It is in fact connected via an optical digital link between the television and the sound bar. I recall now that but this was the case with my former audio video receiver and the second gene

Re: Good sound bar that will work well with an Apple TV and voiceover

2016-11-25 Thread Scott Granados
ve a look at it again tomorrow. >>> >>> -Original Message----- >>> From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >>> [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Mary Otten >>> Sent: Friday, 25 November 2016 11:21 AM >>> To: viph...@googlegroups

Re: Good sound bar that will work well with an Apple TV and voiceover

2016-11-25 Thread Donna Goodin
ssage- >> From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >> [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Mary Otten >> Sent: Friday, 25 November 2016 11:21 AM >> To: viph...@googlegroups.com; mac4thebl...@freelists.org; >> macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >> Subject: Good soun

Re: Good sound bar that will work well with an Apple TV and voiceover

2016-11-25 Thread Scott Berry
ember 2016 11:21 AM > To: viph...@googlegroups.com; mac4thebl...@freelists.org; > macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Subject: Good sound bar that will work well with an Apple TV and voiceover > > I know I have brought this topic up before. Another year has gone by, and > there are many

RE: Good sound bar that will work well with an Apple TV and voiceover

2016-11-24 Thread Simon Fogarty
y, 25 November 2016 11:21 AM To: viph...@googlegroups.com; mac4thebl...@freelists.org; macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Good sound bar that will work well with an Apple TV and voiceover I know I have brought this topic up before. Another year has gone by, and there are many sound ba

Re: Good sound bar that will work well with an Apple TV and voiceover

2016-11-24 Thread David Chittenden
We just upgraded to a Sonos system. I have not yet had any problems with VO clipping and losing words. The Sonos PlayBar (sound bar) uses the digital optical out from the TV. We are very happy with our Sonos system. Kind regards, David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA Email: dchitten...@gmail.com Mobile:

Re: Good sound bar that will work well with an Apple TV and voiceover

2016-11-24 Thread Scott Granados
I’ve never had issues using the optical side. I have terminated an Apple TV previous generation with the optical out straight to a Denon AVR 5803 very successfully but that’s a $5K receiver when it was new a few years ago so it better work.:) I’ll have him give me the part number the next time

Re: Good sound bar that will work well with an Apple TV and voiceover

2016-11-24 Thread Mary Otten
Hi Scott, I will have to check to see if our TV has an optical out. I know when I had the Apple TV previous generation, I had this same problem with voiceover, and I remember trying something with the optical out to no particular avail. And that wasn't just with this sound bar. We had a mad AV r

Re: Good sound bar that will work well with an Apple TV and voiceover

2016-11-24 Thread Scott Granados
Mary, I’ve got the solution for you. I use a Sony sound bar which I absolutely love. It’s the higher end Sony sound bar that Best Buy sells, I’ll have my assistant read the model number off if you want although I think it’s a pretty standard model. The key is, it has an optical in. How I hav

Good sound bar that will work well with an Apple TV and voiceover

2016-11-24 Thread Mary Otten
I know I have brought this topic up before. Another year has gone by, and there are many sound bars on sale right now with substantial discount. But if I don't work any better than what we have now, I don't want to spend another few hundred bucks and be disappointed. The problem I have, and I kn