HDMI ARC is the Coolest TV Feature You're Not Using (Here's How) 

Yup

agree 100%

could not agree more!

I think RU-vid puts those by default? There is a chrome extension to get rid of them. For some reason guys at RU-vid think the last 10 seconds of any video have nothing interesting at all so they think it's ok to hide it behind those end cards, on the top of that no content creator in RU-vid seems to acknowledge this issue and add some extra seconds of a blank screen at the end to keep their content watchable to the very end.

LOL!!! I just said that exact thing!!! STUPID VIDEO! LOL! No wonder it has equal Thumbs Downs. LOL!

My thoughts exactly

No i learned something new because of this

i own nothing.

@jamiecivic coming back to this 5 months later the only thing i learned from this is how to activate it on stuff

I hate how to videos with music and no explanation. If i wanted to watch a music video...

ROFL, No Doubt

2WhiteAndNerdy my pioneer reciever doesn't seem to like my lg tv.

Pioneer receivers are renowned for not playing nice with HDMI Arc on the majority of TVs. To the extent that we are told in Australia by Pro Av Tech guys never to use it.

I have panasonic + yamaha receiver. Works great

I've had had a samsung tv and blu ray home cinema system for years and just recently discovered this feature, and the results are insane.

2WhiteAndNer

outsideredge do you get 5.1 Dolby/DTS via ARC or does the television downsample it to 2.1 stereo to the receiver ?

I get 5.1 DTS through my setup. I set the audio output of my LG TV to Auto and the audio output of the PS4 to Bitstream DTS and it works.

Thanks for clarifying, I have never used this feature and just bought a 4k tv. So was curious to know how to get the best out of my receiver and tv in tandem.

outsiderege Really..... Who gives a FUCK !!!! Have a wonderful day...

Ted Paradie I don’t get why the volume on a soundbar needs an hdmi arc. How can’t the optical audio cable do the job. Stupid imo

I'm confused. I'd like to it to do that, but other info seems to talk about two-direction audio?

Why are you guys responding? It’s not like he can see it.

im shit at reading... i wish it had verbal dialogue in it also✌

Then why are watching a video about TV's?

Neither is your tv??

How did you click the right place to start the video - and how do you plan to watch television?

Matt Bricker so to get something like Dolby Atmos, use optical instead of Arc?

Optical can not transmit resolutions high enough to support Dolby Atmos, TrueHD or DTS HD Master Audio. Only HDMI can fully support those formats.

@@rizdraver you dont have idea what you say. Dont exist more accurate and fast than optical. You talk about resolution in sound? Omg You have messed up Atmos with Dolby and Dr's Go back to school Arc dont support Dts Master and True Hd formats

TV broadcasts are unlikely to use the latest formats, so ARC is normally sufficient to handle the sound from its internal tuner. Ideally everything else connects directly to the AV amp so gets to use the full bandwith main audio channel. This is more complicated in situations where you have an AV amp supporting the latest audio formats but not supporting 4k, and have a 4k bluray player and TV. In this case it's necessary to connect the bluray player to the TV directly to enjoy the 4k picture. In this case, rellying on the ARC reduces your audio to the older low bandwith formats. Optical and coaxial are also limited to the older formats, as they have similar bandwidth to the ARC. This is why a number of 4k bluray players have 2 hdmi outputs. This allows one to transport the picture to the TV in 4k, and the other to transport the audio to the AV amp in the latest formats simoultaneously. In this kind of setup, non 4k devices using the latest audio should be connected to the av amp, and 4k devices not using the latest audio should be connected to the tv. Non 4k devices not using the latest audio can be connected wherever is most convenient. Everything is so much simpler if your av amp supports 4k!

@@dimzan235 @rizdraver. You're talking cross-purposes. The HDMI ARC and Optical connection (and also coaxial digital) all have too low a bandwidth to support the latest audio formats. The main HDMI audio channel has a higher bandwith than all of these. You need to connect you bluray player directly to your AV amp via HDMI to enjoy the latest formats, as this would use the main audio channel. The ARC feature is only used for audio going from your TV to your AV amp or soundbar. Of course, this does mean that Netflix apps built into TVs will only ever support the older audio formats.

Prince Fluffy so with an Xbox playing a movie , I can hook up hdmi to arc and other end to receiver and I will have sound through receiver ?

@@cali_scruff1697 on any receiver?? cause it dont work on my onkyo or polk audio receivers!!!!

@@zootedone1234 Same here, I think you should get an HDMI ARC cable.

Sony kd-49XE8004 are very good, my logitech z-5500 pod finally went down so i had to use the tv speakers, they weren't far off the quality of the z-5500 front speakers, I was quite surprised.

I couldn't agree more. TV speakers almost always sound horrible. Especially these days.

Anybody that cares about audio ceased using optical in 2009. Optical died with Blu-ray: it doesn't support Dolby TrueHD or DTS HD Master Audio. Have you tried HDMI?

HDMI > Optical, so I couldn't agree less.

I use the optical out on TVs all the time on my installations and the good thing is that it is dependable and always works. The downside is that generally speaking, most TVs only output PCM through the optical and thus, no real surround. If at all possible, I just route everything through the receiver (assuming there is one) and just use the TV as a display. For smart features like Netflix, Hulu, etc., I use a streaming device such as AppleTV, Roku, or Blu-ray player. It works every time and you get surround (assuming it’s in a surround system). If there is no surround receiver, I often end up using the optical for a sound bar because TV speakers these days pretty much suck. They’ve generally never been great but with the design of the TVs now, the tiny speakers often end up on the back of the TV.

Bitstream if you want true Dolby and/or DTS sound.

Should I use ARC or optical? In my setup everything goes to the TV via HDMI & then the TV sends the sound to my soundbar (which is 2.1)

A cheap(er) TCL Roku TV will output ATMOS via ARC.

Tv optical out to soundbar optical in.

yes

Himanshu Sharma If you have a receiver as you describe then you don’t need to worry about ARC! You are not using it. You change your source via the av receiver. The ARC would only be used for taking your TV signal (only) and playing it back through your receiver.

Only use ARC if all of your devices are plugged directly to the TV.

Poor baby, you had to actually read something? How awful. If only the video creator had read it to you so you could continue being a lazy slob. Maybe next time.

If I wanted to read about HDMI AR, I could have gone to Wikipedia.

acoow *yawn*.....uh huh....

GiraffeSweaters Your sudden boredom shows that your only interest is in being a troll. Thank you for revealing that to the rest of us.

acoow My boredom was brought on by your utter laziness. Nothing more. No trolling here. Respond if you like, I won't see it. I have other things to do that are more important than people such as yourself.

No. Dolby Atmos (and DTS:X) for the most parts only works if you connect the device directly to the receiver as HDMI-ARC is limited to regular Dolby and DTS 5.1 formats and PCM stereo. There are however some TVs out there that can support Dolby Digital Plus through ARC including the lossy Dolby Digital Plus version of Atmos found on Netflix and Vudu.

Finn Schøyen so Acr is just to get rid of 1 cable only?

This.

Bill the Fifth to get audio back to the sound system from the smart features built in to the tv.

Err... even if you connect everything to the A/V receiver, you still have to plug the TV-audio out cable of the TV set to the receiver in order to get the sound of the OTA or streaming programs "tuned" by the TV set, so if you have an HDMI-ARC connection between the TV and the receiver, why wouldn't you use it to eliminate the need for that cable?

Connect optical cable from sony optical out to soundbar optical in.

Pretty much ;). On a more serious note, optical cannot pass high-resolution audio but at that point I don't care. There are so many compatibility issues with ARC, I'd rather use optical which is cheap and 100% reliable with Dolby Digital.

@@Maxxlenoxx ARC is supposed to sound better than digital optical, but I doubt the average person would be able to tell the difference.

That's sign language ✌️

had exact problem too much $ to have such a problem, optical wire is not the optimum setup . Just bought sound system. WTF ?

Get some brains

ARC lets you send the audio from your TV to your receiver (with more options and higher quality, like Dolby HD, Atmos, etc., than using optical output), and lets your send the audio from the receiver to your TV. So, if you have, say, an Xbox One hooked up to HDMI 1 on your TV, but HDMI 3 is the ARC port, then hooking HDMI 3 to the TV output of your receiver will let you play back the highest quality audio on your receiver, and let you control the volume with your TV's remote.

@@brandogg yeah,thanks for the info!...I'm finally figuring it out! I can now see that "arc" would be beneficial if your video and sound is coming from an "app" that integral to the tv! Like in a bedroom setting where you may not be running an "avr" or even if you are running an "avr" but your getting your audio signal from an integral tv app (like Netflix). In my living room I run everything thru my "avr" including a separate "roku" box so "arc" is really no help for me in that system. But in my bedroom I dont have an "avr" and I'm running a sound bar and a 4k blue ray player and I have discovered that the "arc" input is beneficial in that setting! Thanks guys for yall input! I think I finally have a grasp for this "arc"...lol!!!!

@@brandogg you can do that on optical . Just the controlling of the remote what the difference.

mpoveroni no impact on picture quality

I also enjoy watching videos so I can read.

LMAO

And here I am struggling to get subs. Clearly, I've been missin' the boat. Making DIY videos where I actually talk and show things. Where's my printing press?

So do I. Reading is good.

Lol that picture goes perfect with that statement