7.1 does work with multichannel with mini pc connected,

Tested it with speaker configuration,

Only thing the small audio delay,

Games only use pcm (and moonlight also only) so enabling dolby atmos is no option.

Why can’t Phillips like other tvs just passhtrough pcm audio with bypass enabled?

LG tvs Sony etc just passhtrough pcm over earc?

@Disney_World1

The problem is games doesn’t support dolby atmos on pc they all rely on pc same as moonlight can only passhtrough pcm audio no audio codecs

For movies setting the TV to dolby atmos would work great yes (it’s dolby digital+ atmos then)

Using the moonlight app on android TV also doesn’t work (Google or Android  TV apps) only do run in 60hz so I can’t use 120 or 144hz then,  to get 120 or 144hz you always need a hdmi device. Also the decoding time of the tvs soc are bad haha.

Spdif also wouldent work because the games doesn’t have dolby digital they all have pcm.

I just don’t know why phillips can’t passhtrough pcm audio in bypass mode over earc.

Like most tvs can haha? But thank you very much trying to help me and looking for a solution

Same that Philips doesn’t have the dolby true HD licence, so they can’t passhtrough dolby true HD atmos over earc when you play a bleuray file on let’s say the shield. Contacted Philips and they replied they indeed have no dolby true HD licence. But I fixed that with connecting the shield to the soundbar directly :)

@toengel

I did that with Cru and it supports 8 channel lpcm the hdmi 2.1 port, it does work great in multichannel but like I said a small delay,

But bypass doesn’t support /passthrough pcm surround sadly only pcm 2.0