Helllo,
I only recently bought my first B&O gear, a Beosound Theatre and 4x Beolab 18s. Overall I'm very very happy with the Sound Quality.
I now have a question regarding using the above setup in combination with Apple Music. Apple Music offers Lossless, Dolby Atmos and High res music. Where I of course can use Airplay to stream to the Theatre, this only allow a 2 channel music stream which is afaik resampled to Airplay 48 kHz (not bit-perfect lossless).
I also own an Apple TV 4K, when using the Apple TV to play Apple Music over HDMI, the Lossless tracks are received by the Theatre in their bit-perfect lossless format (checked in B&O App incoming signal info). Additionally, the AppleTV allow the Music Files available in Dolby Atmos format to be streamed multi-channel to the Theatre (using a Music preset in "Direct" mode instead of TrueImage.).
Now coming to my question: All in all the sound if really good using the above setup but to be able to use the AppleTV as main source to play Apple Music, I need to select the HDMI connection which is only available as a "Video" source and not as an "Audio". This means that whenever I want to play music via the AppleTV, the screen will automatically be turned On. Is there any way to avoid this? can an HDMI connection be used for Audio only?
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check this out, a lot of people were helped by this: https://www.reddit.com/r/appletv/s/hCzHMc4Kj4
Since an AppleTV or a Blu Ray player etc all are video sources the tv/the screen will per default turn on.
Before I get into trying to find a solution, first please tell me which tv you are using.
MM
Location: Flensborg————Danmark
I'm using an LG 77G1 panel and Beoremote One to control.
I understand there are many Devices delivering Audio and Video via HDMI but nowadays there are also more and more delivering just audio. In the B&O app > Theatre > Settings > Sources section I can only find HDMI under "TV" and not under "Music" categorie (not 100% on the translation as I use the app in Dutch language). I guess that limits HDMI to only work with a TV (turns on the TV).
Thanks!
On every priviously BV there was a P.Mute (picture mute) option in the remote.
This has been missed by some of us and has been reported to B&O as a wish for…
However those of us, who might benefit from this function, are obviously too few for them to get into action.
I have had a workaround for this for a while, that I can live with.
The link to the Reddit page mostly present solutions for those who use the Magic Remote - not for us with a BROne.
However one suggestion can be used:
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Going into the Settings and doing this should not be a problem with the BROne.
This means - translated to the BROne - that you must find this entry in the List:
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Sorry for the danish language - I am sure you will find it ?
On the screen it then looks like this (please note, that I have deleted all other entries there….I do not need those.
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Pushing ‘Skærm fra’/Picture off does the job ?
A couple of actions, yes - but it does the job……untill maybe someday B&O might reintroduce P.Mute again as an entry in the List of the remote.
Hope that helps.
Note!
This is a general solution of the LG tv, that works for any source, be it internal or external.
My LG version is a C2.
MM
Location: Flensborg————Danmark
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