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Apple's HomePod is obtaining a lot other helpful as a home talkie apostle for Municipal TV 4K owners. Municipal has confirmed to The Verge that an upcoming software update will let the apostle output Dolby Atmos audio and 5.1 and 7.1 clogging audio from Apple's streaming box.

The feature will work all-time back you kumtux two HomePod speakers paired up, loosely conjointly works with just one. The new $99 HomePod mini, though, will not support the new home talkie functionality.

Dolby Atmos support arrives as Municipal is rectifying how the HomePod works with its streaming box. For starters, tvOS 14.2 beta 3 allows Municipal TV 4K owners to set the HomePod as their streaming box's deficiency apostle output, co-ordinate to 9to5Mac, meaning it shouldn't constantly gravity users to reselect it as their audio output as it previously did back continuous over AirPlay 2. For now, this functionality appears to require curtain-raiser to a surreptitious beta adaptation of the HomePod's operating system, however.

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Apple's armpit confirms the home talkie individualism are explicit to the HomePod.

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The HomePod is conjointly obtaining new beleaguer sound functionality, utilizing its spatial sensation individualism to policy viscerous beleaguer sound audio. As noted on Apple's website, the "home talkie with Municipal TV 4K" feature is personally trustable by the other expensive HomePod spine the $99 HomePod mini lacks its spatial sensation or beam-forming technologies. The HomePod mini can still be acclimated with the Municipal TV 4K utilizing AirPlay 2, however.

Apple's forthcoming update organ the HomePod will commodities up to the Amazon Studio, which has been commensurate to remake Dolby Atmos audio for Flame TV streaming equipment spine its self-flagellation last year.

If Amazon's accomplishing of the feature is nada to go by, however, then HomePod and Municipal TV 4K owners could be in for a treat. Back my aide Dan Seifert tried out the feature last year, he found Amazon's apostle offered sound quality that was comparable to a transversely and other expensive Dolby Atmos soundbar.

Update October 15th, 6:49AM ET: Well-suited to expound that surroundings the HomePod as a deficiency Municipal TV 4K apostle currently requires a surreptitious beta.

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