Hey all,
I'm bringing this thread back from the grave. I recently took advantage of the price drop on HomePods and bought two for $199 each (Best Buy) and paired them for stereo playback. They sounded wonderful. Music playback is so good in my living room. Movie and TV show playback in my Plex setup is great. Netflix, HBO, et. al. are the same.
Then I get to Channels. Not so great. Changing channels was a nightmare. Picture would freeze for around 20-30 seconds, sound out of sync, picture freezing while the sound continues and then the picture goes to hyper speed and eventually syncs with sound. After fiddling with a few settings it got a little better, but there's still issues as were mentioned above. I eventually unpaired the HPs, restarted them and re-paired them--also, I did try the experimental audio driver and things seemed to improve, but still not as good as ALL of my other apps.
Now I understand that this appears to be an Apple tvOS issue, but since the last post from devs here was May of last year (2019)--I would hope that SOME progress could have been made from Apple, or perhaps tweaks to the experimental audio driver to help sort this out.
Any updates to this? I really don't want to return the HomePods as they are really great speakers, but since I use Channels for all of my live TV viewing--it's making me rethink my purchase.
Can the dev team share any updates on this? Thanks.