Yes, your HT needs to be ARC compatible as well.

Shitty soundbar for the price.

If it's RM1k or less, then sure that's quite an exceptional value. RM3k? lol... that's highway robbery.

Asuming your speakers has optical input, then yes.
However, do understand that the W804 only passthrough Dolby Digital and not DTS. The majority of movies are encoded in DTS, so using the pass-through from the optical out the W804 would mean for the audio to be downmixed into LPCM 2.0 (stereo).

There is a trick of course, where you can use LAV Audio and Reclock to encode a DTS file into AC3 Dolby Digital before transporting the signal through HDMI.

Your speakers also need to decode Dolby Digital in order for surround to work.


In regards to your opinion:

12) No amount of firmware/software updates will fix the dark screen issue. Reason is simple, because "clear/clear plus/ impulse" is basically a mode that interpolates the screen achieve a higher refresh rate. It is how it is, nothing will fix this and it is the same on all other TVs.

Dolby Digital is 5.1.
Check up on Dolby's site to see all their technologies - http://www.dolby.com/us/en/consumer/techno...er/listing.html

Just don't be suckered into their marketing of course.

Also, why would you want to spend money on such poor quality speakers? Spending RM1.2k on the Z906? Kind of a waste. For a little more (RM1.7k or so) you could get a much better entry level Yamaha NS-P40 with an entry level Yamaha V375. You'd have much better expandability in the future.
Even the Denon DHT-1312XP is a better buy than the Z906, despite being old http://www.lazada.com.my/denon-dht-1312xp-...atre-58487.html

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Because plenty complained about last year's W804 having shitty black levels and poor color vibrance, which actually looked worse than the much cheaper W674.
Sony switched the W8 series to AUO VA panels this year and thus active 3D instead of passive 3D that was possible with the LG IPS panel on the W804.

For me personally, yes. I hated how poor the blacks were on the W804. Though the IPS panel on the W804 is a necessity for the viewing angles if your room is setup with sofas beyond the 60 degree viewing angle limit of a VA panel. You can certainly still watch, but colors will shift beyond 60 degrees (some VA panels are even worse) eventhough specs state that they have an angle limit of up to 178 degrees.

So, see how your room is setup to be like.

Though if you were to go for an IPS panel, I'd suggest you go back to LG instead.

954a without question lol.

To be quite frank with you, Triluminous doesn't mean anything. In reality, Sony does try and handpick the best produced AUO panels for their flagship TVs (in this case, the W954a). They would then calibrate the sets so that it would look better than other AUO panel used in their other lines (W6 and W7) out of the box. Majority of users do not have calibration tools or even the knowledge to go around it, so yeah basically Triluminos makes the W9 look better than the other lines through properly picked panels and calibration, not because Triluminous is some magic LCD panel that does wonders.

That being said, the W9 would obviously look better even after post-calibration in comparison to the W6/W7 due to generally better panel uniformity and better motion handling. It's still the best all-around 1080p LCD TV from 2013 though.

So yeah, don't always get suckered up into Sony's marketing.

Netflix (and other apps) does not appear on your Sony TV unless you are connected to a VPN/third-party DNS. So yeah, set your connection up properly first be it through your TV or router.

Different DNS services has different ways of setting them up.

Choose the DNS service you want then follow their guides.
https://simpletv.co/
http://www.unlocator.com/
http://www.smartydns.com/
http://www.proxydns.co/

All these are good, so choose the one which is most suitable to you. They have guides for various devices.

Choose whichever you like. A DNS is simply just a DNS, doesn't matter who your ISP is.


Unfortunately, free DNS are often useless, unstable and are easily blocked by Netflix/Hulu+/any other paid streaming service. So yeah, pay a little bit and forget about the hassle.
ProxyDNS is the cheapest and it has worked for me. I'm currently using SimpleTV.

Yes.
You don't have to download the apps, it's actually already there in the TV. Just locked out of view and usage if you aren't "in" the US.

All the DNS service that I've listed has free trials, so try them out and see which works best for you (by right in theory, there shouldn't be a difference).

They have 2 DNS address, all DNS providers has 2. I don't know how you only got one when their front page lists 2 -

74.207.242.213
50.116.28.138