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NO Lossless audio? None roku ultras oddly do not lossless audio. Roku is missing a huge market

None of my roku ultras oddly do not send lossless audio. Why not as it's ancient technology with old codecs? The device and hdmi have way more bandwidth than necessary. You are missing a whole market of streamers!  My AV reciever switches to stereo so it knows it's music. Do any of these new streamer/audio products send lossless audio from hi quality sources Amazon/Tidal?

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atc98092
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Re: NO Lossless audio? None roku ultras oddly do not lossless audio. Roku is missing a huge market

This has been an issue we've brought up for years, with no action. The only devices I know for certain that bitstream (almost) all audio sources are the Nvidia Shield and Fire TV Cube (3rd gen). There's some others also on the market, virtually all running a version of Android TV/Google TV. I use a Shield for my home media with lossless audio, but have personally tested a Cube as well. The Onn 4K video player does not, nor does the Apple TV (it internally converts everything to lossless PCM, which I don't care for). 

Dan

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