Normal people: Buy a TV, click on the netflix app, chooses movie. "Wow the picture looks so good!"
Me: "Okay so the appleTV cannot direct play Dolby TrueHD/DTS:X but the server can transcode the audio to flac, but this disables any height information so it's just a 7.1 mix. The Nvidia Shield Pro can do passthru however so height tracks play properly, but the Shield is unable to send a 480p24 signal to the TV for upscaling, instead upscaling to 720p60 if "play original quality" is on. If I disable that the shield upscales everything to 2160p and plays at the original frame rate, but the upscaling on the shield blows ass and I'd prefer if the TV did any upscaling. The obvious solution is to use both depending on what content I'm playing, but because I have to hook them up directly to the soundbar (because my TV doesn't pass DTS audio over eARC) I don't have enough ports. The real solution is to buy a proper AV receiver. I suppose I could manually enable the height channels on the soundbar when using the appleTV, but I worry that the mix won't be proper then, and I'd like to solve some of the fringe codec issues the AppleTV has."