If your Sammy H5203 is comparable to my ES6150, the Smart Apps will give you 5.1 sound if, and only if, the service (Netflix, et al) has a 5.1 soundtrack available for that content.
There's problem, though.
Netflix is using Dolby Digital+, which is an extension of DD. TOSlink (SPDIF in Samsung's parlance) is limited to regular DD and DTS. So the TV has to transcode. My ES6150 does it badly, and there are audio dropouts every few minutes, sometimes several times a minute. Using HDMI-ARC won't help, ARC is also limited like TOSlink and SPDIF.
This shouldn't be a problem, but it is. Color me Teed Off at Samsung for having bad firmware, or cheap electronics, that essentially spoil the value of the Smart apps that they market so aggressively.
Plugging in an AppleTV, or Chromecast, or Roku, or any device with a direct HDMI connection to your AVR, will not have this problem.
If the issue is the number of channels, i.e. you are tuned into the 5.1 audio track (hit the TV remote INFO button while Netflix is playing), and you're hearing two channels, hit the AVR On Screen, Information, Audio display and it should tell you what format the audio is in , how many channels, any dialogue trim flags, etc. My old RXV663 displayed INPUT channels on the front display, my 775 shows OUTPUT channels -- so don't trust that. Use the AVR's signal information screen. If there's a mismatch, then go into the TV's setup and ensure it's sending PCM (preferred) or DD though SPDIF.
Hope this helps!
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There's problem, though.
Netflix is using Dolby Digital+, which is an extension of DD. TOSlink (SPDIF in Samsung's parlance) is limited to regular DD and DTS. So the TV has to transcode. My ES6150 does it badly, and there are audio dropouts every few minutes, sometimes several times a minute. Using HDMI-ARC won't help, ARC is also limited like TOSlink and SPDIF.
This shouldn't be a problem, but it is. Color me Teed Off at Samsung for having bad firmware, or cheap electronics, that essentially spoil the value of the Smart apps that they market so aggressively.
Plugging in an AppleTV, or Chromecast, or Roku, or any device with a direct HDMI connection to your AVR, will not have this problem.
If the issue is the number of channels, i.e. you are tuned into the 5.1 audio track (hit the TV remote INFO button while Netflix is playing), and you're hearing two channels, hit the AVR On Screen, Information, Audio display and it should tell you what format the audio is in , how many channels, any dialogue trim flags, etc. My old RXV663 displayed INPUT channels on the front display, my 775 shows OUTPUT channels -- so don't trust that. Use the AVR's signal information screen. If there's a mismatch, then go into the TV's setup and ensure it's sending PCM (preferred) or DD though SPDIF.
Hope this helps!
// Posted from Tapatalk 3.2.1 for iOS - later versions are pfft. //
