Hi Mary, I have the Sonos Playbar which is connected to my TV via an optical audio cable. I have never noticed that there is any dropped audio when I was using my Apple TV with Voiceover. I'll re-read your email, but if you want maybe send me a message privately to [email protected] and explain again exactly what you experience. If you want we could also do a Facetime Audio call some time and you could tell me what to try and you could then hear what the audio that comes out of my soundbar is doing. The Sonos Playbar isn't cheap, but it is a very good quality and good sounding soundbar. The other nice thing is that it is of course a stand-alone Sonos player so even if your TV isn't on you can use the fully accessible Sonos app and play any music you want whether it's Apple Music, Spotify, Deezer, Pandora or any of the other music services including the free stations available via Tune-In or Slacker.
Regards, Sieghard -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mary Otten Sent: Thursday, November 24, 2016 2:21 PM To: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] 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 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 know others have had it as well, is that when you have voiceover on your Apple TV and that is connected to a sound bar, you miss words from voiceover. When sound is playing, as when you have music or TV program active, there are no VoiceOver missing words. This has something to do with the HDMI, and I don't remember exactly what. But I know that when I look at the sound bars online, it doesn't really give any indication of any of the specs that I might need to know up to see if voiceover is going to work right. We just got a Roku streaming stick with accessibility. It's suffers from the same problem as voiceover. You miss lots of words. So, I would really like to get a nice quality sound bar that actually lets me use these devices. I can sort of get around it with the Apple TV by using a Bluetooth speaker. But then of course, the sound bar isn't in use. Anyway, I would really like a top quality sound bar that is going to do what I need it to do for any of these connected devices that have voice accessibility. Does anybody have any advice? Sent from my iPhone -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
