Best practice: Connecting media device to TV vs Soundbar

Kemik

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Is it better to:
  1. Attach the AppleTV to the soundbar (Yamaha YSP 2700) and then video is pushed to the TV via the ARC input HDMI?
  2. Attach the AppleTV to the TV and then feed the audio to the soundbar via the ARC input HDMI?
Ideally we would be able to control it all via the AppleTV remote as I'm keen to move away from my Harmony hub with it no longer being supported. I know you can use HDMI-CEC to do this these days. We don't have any other inputs.

Cheers!
 
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For sound it makes no difference which way you connect. Apple TV is going to give you stereo PCM (with Dolby Surround encoding in many cases. This will be detected and decoded as Dolby ProLogic/ProLogic II), and Dolby Digital in up to 5.1. Any Dolby Atmos content will be ignored as the sound bar doesn't handle this.

The sound bar will pass 4K, and so long as the firmware is up to date it will pass HDR too including Dolby Vision. This applies only of the source is connected directly to the sound bar. It makes no difference if you connect to the TV first.
 
lucid said:
For sound it makes no difference which way you connect. Apple TV is going to give you stereo PCM (with Dolby Surround encoding in many cases. This will be detected and decoded as Dolby ProLogic/ProLogic II), and Dolby Digital in up to 5.1. Any Dolby Atmos content will be ignored as the sound bar doesn't handle this.

The sound bar will pass 4K, and so long as the firmware is up to date it will pass HDR too including Dolby Vision. This applies only of the source is connected directly to the sound bar. It makes no difference if you connect to the TV first.
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Sometimes bypassing the TV and going directly to the bar can fix lip sync issues if you get any. Tend to see it more with Sky boxes than anything else though.
 
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