I know that Arc stands for Audio Return Channel, but I cant find a cliffs notes on what exactly that means.
Does it mean its the best HDMI port to use for music/high quality audio?
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So, I’ve got a TV. Big ol’ honkin’ thing on the wall. I also have a nice home theater receiver that feeds all my HDMI stuff to my TV while pumping the tunes on my 1.25KW sound system.
Problem is, I also like to watch broadcast TV on occasion (I have a big ol’ antenna! In the attic! How quaint!). Normally I’d be forced to either a) listen to that over the TV’s built-in speakers, or b) run a separate (probably optical) cable back down to my sound system so that the TV can output its broadcast audio to it.
Enter ARC – what it allows me to do is have the sound system output all the video to the TV on that HDMI cable, *and* get an audio feed back *from* the TV to play, all on one cable. Is it a huge deal? Maybe! Idunno! It sure is convenient though!
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