Mary, I’ve got the solution for you. I use a Sony sound bar which I absolutely love. It’s the higher end Sony sound bar that Best Buy sells, I’ll have my assistant read the model number off if you want although I think it’s a pretty standard model. The key is, it has an optical in. How I have it wired is as follows.
The HDMI from the different devices (set top box for FIOS, Apple TV, Fire TV, Xbox 1) go direct from the device to the TV. Then, I take the optical out from the TV and patch it directly to the optical in on the sound bar. You use the TV as the HDMI switcher. Voice over works flawlessly with no lost words in this configuration. It never dropped any with HDMI passed right through either but the issue I had there was the audio would entirely stop once in a while and require a restart of the sound bar. Using the optical transport has totally eliminated all sound loss issues and provides a fantastic sound quality. This sound bar also has a very nice sub which is wireless and can be placed anywhere in the room. There’s even a mode for apartment use so it tries to isolate the sound more in your space and let less leak in to the adjoining units. Can’t say enough good things about it. Hope that helps. > On Nov 24, 2016, at 5:20 PM, Mary Otten <motte...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I know I have brought this topic up before. Another year has gone by, and > there are many sound bars on sale right now with substantial discount. But if > I don't work any better than what we have now, I don't want to spend another > few hundred bucks and be disappointed. The problem I have, and I know others > have had it as well, is that when you have voiceover on your Apple TV and > that is connected to a sound bar, you miss words from voiceover. When sound > is playing, as when you have music or TV program active, there are no > VoiceOver missing words. This has something to do with the HDMI, and I don't > remember exactly what. But I know that when I look at the sound bars online, > it doesn't really give any indication of any of the specs that I might need > to know up to see if voiceover is going to work right. We just got a Roku > streaming stick with accessibility. It's suffers from the same problem as > voiceover. You miss lots of words. So, I would really like to get a nice > quality sound bar that actually lets me use these devices. I can sort of get > around it with the Apple TV by using a Bluetooth speaker. But then of course, > the sound bar isn't in use. Anyway, I would really like a top quality sound > bar that is going to do what I need it to do for any of these connected > devices that have voice accessibility. Does anybody have any advice? > > Sent from my iPhone > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries > list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: > macvisionaries+modera...@googlegroups.com and your owner is Cara Quinn - you > can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: macvisionaries+modera...@googlegroups.com and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
