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Originally Posted by Fuzz
A lot of the streaming services have killed off 5.1 Dolby digital audio and are going with Dolby Atmos. Problem is my receiver is older, so more and more I get 2 channel. I don't really want to throw out a perfectly good receiver. Are there devices that take in HDMI and either convert the audio to Dolby digital, or split the output so video can go to my projector, and audio through toslink or SPDIF to the receiver? Or am I missing something obvious here?
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How are your streaming services connected to your receiver? In theory, Atmos should have backwards compatibility with older receiver because the Atmos data is added onto a DD+ stream (in streaming services). An old receiver should be able to ignore the Atmos data and just play the DD+ data for multi-channel audio as long as it gets the raw audio stream.