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      Sonos plans Roku-like TV streaming box and AirPods Max-like headphones

      news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Wednesday, 22 November - 18:25

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    Enlarge / Apple's AirPods Max, a close analog to what Sonos plans to launch in April. (credit: Apple)

    Bloomberg reporter Mark Gurman isn't just reporting about the inner workings of Apple; he's breaking news about upcoming Sonos products. In a report published Tuesday, Gurman revealed that Sonos is months away from releasing a competitor to high-end wireless headphones after years of vague rumors.

    Additionally, Sonos is reportedly working on a Roku Ultra- or Apple TV 4K-like set-top box that would allow users to watch video from a wide range of streaming TV apps.

    The Bloomberg article says the device will cost between $150 and $200 and will be a small black box. We've seen some prior reports that flesh this out a bit; Sonos has been working on something called Home Theater OS (which would be Android-based) for some time, and voice control is said to be a key feature. Sonos is also considering launching its own streaming video service. The device will support Dolby Atmos and Dolby Vision, and it will seamlessly work with Sonos' existing home theater speakers.

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      Voici comment Sonos va contrarier les plans d’Apple en 2024

      news.movim.eu / JournalDuGeek · Wednesday, 22 November - 16:08

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    Sonos prépare une offensive de grande envergure l'année prochaine. Le spécialiste de l'audio prévoit d'entre deux nouvelles catégories d'appareils, faisant directement face à Apple.

    Voici comment Sonos va contrarier les plans d’Apple en 2024

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      Sonos prépare un mystérieux produit pour l’année prochaine

      news.movim.eu / JournalDuGeek · Friday, 17 November - 08:00

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    Sonos lancera un nouveau produit important en 2024 et on a déjà notre petite idée. Sa sortie doit aider la firme à sortir d'une spirale négative, marquée par des résultats trimestriels en demi-teinte.

    Sonos prépare un mystérieux produit pour l’année prochaine

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      Sonos has finally fixed the Dolby Atmos “pop of death” in its Arc soundbars

      news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Thursday, 16 November - 22:00

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    Enlarge / Sonos notes that its Arc soundbar pairs "Dolby Atmos and the upward-firing drivers," which some users have not enjoyed during cacophonous pops. (credit: Sonos)

    A bang, a gunshot, a " pop of death ": Some owners of Sonos' Arc and second-gen Beam soundbars have been dealing with a striking audio disruption with their audio systems since at least December 2020.

    The issue now has a fix , and it should already be available to users. Updating a Sonos mobile or desktop app and then checking for system updates should push the changes to Sonos speakers.

    A Sonos staff member writes that the Arc and Beam soundbars "in certain home theater configurations process Dolby MAT," which delivers Atmos audio over HDMI connections. Sonos products could receive corrupted audio from that connection but were failing to filter out those bits, playing them instead. The corrupted audio "can manifest as a popping sound." The Sonos devices' improved Dolby decoder should no longer force listeners to hear what it sounds like when digital audio transmissions go awry.

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      Échec patent pour Sonos, Google restaure des fonctions dans ses appareils audio

      news.movim.eu / JournalDuGeek · Sunday, 15 October, 2023 - 15:00

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    Sonos a essuyé une sévère défaite face à Google au sujet de la violation de brevets. La justice américaine a invalidé deux de ses brevets, ce qui permet à Google de restaurer une fonction sur ses appareils audio.

    Échec patent pour Sonos, Google restaure des fonctions dans ses appareils audio

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      Test Sonos Move 2 : une autonomie doublée pour un son plus équilibré

      news.movim.eu / JournalDuGeek · Thursday, 12 October, 2023 - 10:30

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    L’enceinte portable haut de gamme de Sonos vient de subir un lifting avant tout technique qui apporte des améliorations bienvenues par rapport à la première version.

    Test Sonos Move 2 : une autonomie doublée pour un son plus équilibré

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      Google wins Sonos patent case, immediately ships speaker software update

      news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Wednesday, 11 October, 2023 - 18:49 · 1 minute

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    Enlarge / The Nest Audio. (credit: Google )

    Google and Sonos have been volleying patent infringement lawsuits back and forth for a few years now. Sonos has been making Internet-connected speakers since 2005 and has a lot of patents, while Google only jumped into the market in 2016 with the first speaker in the Google Home lineup (now called "Nest Audio"). You may remember that in early 2022 , Google lost a Sonos patent infringement case around controlling multiple speakers together in a group. After losing, rather than just paying Sonos a licensing fee for the feature, Google instead chose to reach into customers' homes and disable the feature from devices people had already bought.

    This week Google managed to convince a federal court that some of the patents from the 2022 ruling are invalid, and Google's response was to immediately ship an update re-enabling the group speaker features on customers' devices. Here's the pretty wild statement Google made to customers on the Nest Support forum:

    We recently made a change to speaker groups for Nest speakers, displays, and Chromecast where certain devices can only belong to one speaker group at a time in the Google Home app. A federal judge has found that two patents that Sonos accused our devices of infringing are invalid .

    In light of this legal decision we’re happy to share that we will be rolling back this change. Devices will be able to belong to multiple speaker groups and you will no longer run into an error when trying to add a device to additional groups. We’re beginning to roll out this update immediately and expect it to go live across our devices and the Home App on Android in the next 48 hours. The change will also be coming soon to the Home App on iOS.

    As it says in the statement, the invalidated patents were around adding speakers to multiple speaker groups. Google Home/Nest Audio and Sonos speakers can play audio from multiple speakers in multiple rooms, using their built-in microphones to automatically juggle the surprisingly complex audio delay problems, creating a seamless whole-home audio experience. Sonos smacked down Google with five patents in 2022, with the (still valid!) headline patent allowing for the control of multiple speaker volumes at once. Sonos won $32.5 million in damages from Google.

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      Test de la Sonos Move 2 : plus de cohérence sonore pour la reine des enceintes portables

      news.movim.eu / Numerama · Monday, 18 September, 2023 - 13:10

    L'enceinte portable de Sonos passe à la deuxième génération. La Move 2 s'appuie sur l'incroyable héritage du produit précédent pour améliorer l'expérience. Le rendu sonore est plus convaincant. [Lire la suite]

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      Sonos Move 2 : l’enceinte nomade se réinvente en profondeur

      news.movim.eu / JournalDuGeek · Wednesday, 6 September, 2023 - 15:00

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    Sonos dévoile sa nouvelle enceinte premium nomade. La Move 2 s'offre une profonde refonte en s'améliorant sur tous les points, sauf le prix.

    Sonos Move 2 : l’enceinte nomade se réinvente en profondeur