A/V receivers with Dolby Vision and Auro-3D will be more common in 2017 and 2018

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In the year 2017 and 2018 it sounds like it might be time to upgrade ones A/V receiver to a 4K Ultra HD model since all the features people are looking for might become a reality. The ideal A/V receiver should have HDMI 2.0b or HDMI 2.1 with full Dolby Vision support. Some older A/V receivers only support standard HDR10 with HDMI 2.0a. Of course in 2017 and 2018 the secure encrypted HDCP version 2.2 technology is a standard feature on all or most HDMI inputs and outputs.

In the year 2017 and 2018 several A/V receiver manufactures will have the potential to offer, Auro-3D immersive sound processing along with Dolby ATMOS and DTS: X. Therefore consumers will have access to all 3 object based surround sound formats. However 2017 might only have the high-end flagship A/V receivers offering Auro-3D sound decoding, where as in the year 2018 might have several A/V receivers offering the new Auro-3D feature.

The following is a select quote from page 8 of the February 2017 Widescreen Review magazine

“While several manufactures of surround processors now only provide Dolby ATMOS and DTS: X processing, soon all manufactures of surround processors and receivers will be able to also include Auro-3D Immersive Sound processing, as Texas Instruments has now finalized and is licensing manufactures its chipset, which, due to unavailability, has previously held this introduction back.”