“What is bandwidth of the HDMI 2.1 ports? 48 Gbps like on the accompanying OLED TV?”
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The answer posted saying hdmi 2.1 is required for earc is not true. Hdmi 2.1 is not required for earc, although it is required for vrr&allm pass through. In other words, if it's not hdmi 2.1, you wont be hooking up your next gen console to it. You can use it with earc and hook the console or pc up to the tv/monitor to take advantage of earc, but your tv must support passing through of certain audio formats. 2020 lg and samsung do not pass through dts. If it's hdmi 2.1 and supports the right video formats and pass throughs, you can hook things up directly to the soundbar, as is preferred. Many TV's have earc and do not support HDMI 2.1. earc is an HDMI 2.1 standard, however it can be implemented on an 18gbps hdmi 2.0b chipset. Initially this was suppose to be an HDMI 2.1 soundbar. If the answer from Vizio is correct, it's likely that they went back on their word, because vizio hasn't figured out hdmi 2.1 yet. Their TV's don't even implement vrr properly, so I'm not confident a soundbar would. To be fair, I don't know a single manufacturer that doesn't have problems with VRR at the moment. We'll have to see if Sony gets It right in their firmware updates. I was going to buy this, but if it's hdmi 2.0, it's useless. No 4k-120, vrr, or allm pass-through(if it is really hdmi 2.0). Even if it is hdmi 2.1, wait until the vrr is tested and confirmed working. Like we all should've done before spending thousands on their TV's this year. If this unit does not have hdmi 2.1, that would be almost as stupid as releasing a p series, pqx and OLed before they are ready for the market.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.Hello Jason, They are HDMI 2.0 with 18Gbps bandwidth.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.I found some issues using a Philips 18Gbps HDMI cable to connect the eARC on the soundbar to the ARC port on my TV. It stuttered from time to time. After I switch to a 48Gbps cable, the problem is solved. Not sure if that is an issue with the cable or the eARC actually carries >18Gbps data.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.Honestly when I saw Vizio respond that the Elevate was only HDMI 2.0 I started looking at other sound bars. I decided to call customer service to see what was going on. Customer service basically told me nothing but gave me the phone number of Vizio technical support. I have talked to two different people at Vizio tech-support and they both confirmed that this will be HDMI 2.1. I asked them why a rep from Vizio is telling people on Best Buy.com that it will only support HDMI 2.0? That person at tech-support thought possibly they had old information. I hope that more of you call Vizio tech support and tell them because they’re legitimately losing customers because they are giving false information. One last thing is when I put in the pre-order at my local Best Buy the girl behind the counter told me there was a release date of October 25. Not sure how accurate that was but it was something I overheard. Maybe sooner as my vizio oled came out a week before it was supposed to.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.They have to be HDMI 2.1, otherwise there's no eARC which this soundbar has......
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