- DTS support seems to have been eliminated from LG 2025 TVs
- Almost all transmission services are Dolby, no DTS
- Your streamer or AV sound bar can have a DTS decoder
The story seems to be repeating: LG has eliminated DTS support from its OLED 2025 televisions, including LG C5, just like it did in 2020.
Notified by television reviewer Vincent Teoh (through Flatpanelshd) reports, EDID information in LG G5, the information he tells audio sources and videos what formats an television admits, does not include the DTS audio.
When LG brought DTS in 2023, we said it was good news for home cinema lovers, as it would give them support for the content that Dolby Atmos did not use. But it seems that according to the internal data of LG, there were not many of those users or much of that content that is reproduced on LG televisions: Dolby was, with much, the most used surround sound format.
That is mainly because Dolby and Atmos are the preferred format of the best transmission services. The only exception of notable DTS, the IMax improved by Disney+, was not compatible with LG televisions due to its particular variation in the format.
The 2025 models will be only Dolby, but that does not mean that you still cannot enjoy DTS’s soundtracks.
How to avoid the lack of DTS in 2025 LG TVS
The problem here is to decode. DTS is a compressed audio format, and that means that you need a device that can unwind and send it to one of the best sound bars, or its home movie speakers.
However, if your television is eliminated from the equation, then it doesn’t matter if it is compatible with DTS.
If your TV cannot decode DTS, you can have other devices that you can. So, if your source device is connected to an AV receptor that is compatible with DTS, then you should not worry if your TV has DTS: decoding occurs in your receiver, not on your TV.
With the sound bars it is a bit more complex, because it will need a sound bar that admits the HDMI step, as well as the DTS so that the sound bar can handle the audio and send the video to the TV.
Many models do not offer that connectivity, although most high -end models or average range of Sony, Samsung and LG do it. You can connect one of the best 4K Blu-ray players or other DTS source directly to the HDMI input of the sound bar and then connect the TV to the other port, and the sound bar will take and decode the DTS audio.
If that is not an option, there is one more thing you can do: if your LG TV (or any other TV) does not have the ability to decode DTS, but its 4K Blu-ray players do it, you can usually configure the player to decode the DTS and generate uncompressing audio.
Try to configure the audio output format of your player in LPCM, often Linear PCM labeling. This format can pass through the TV to its sound bar in surround sound without any concern about the format, although it would lose the space sound of DTS: X.
It is a pity that LG has eliminated this format, and we are not sure that LG TVs will probably add the Eclipsa audio in the future will really compensate.
However, during the next months, LG 2024 televisions will remain for sale, including LG C4 and LG G4, and possibly are better value than its 2025 models, so if you want DTS support …
