Well at 320x360 pixels per panel, you apparently need 110" minimum for 1920x1080, and 220" for 3840x2160. Got room for 220"?

I imagine they might manage to make the resolution per panel better over the next few years.

No question, a good sound system is nice in the right rooms. PSB is making some excellent in wall speakers now that I will be using in my new home theater going with a 110" screen and JVC DLA-RS520U.

Just in case some of you are interested in this:
https://www.avsforum.com/forum/40-ole...l#post54575806

I need help bought a klipsch subwoofer to use with my A1E and used a rca cable plugged the 3.5mm side into the headphone jack and went into the sound settings and chose the subwoofer option for output and it still doesn't work. Any ideas?

From the Manual:  AUDIO OUT Supports 3-pole stereo mini jack only. To listen to the TV's sound through the connected equipment, press HOME. Select [Settings]  [Sound]  [Headphone/Audio out] and then select the desired item.

I bought this

http://imgur.com/a/JRLm3


there still might be something I'm missing

What kind of cable are you using exactly?

The manual states it MUST be a stereo 3.5mm, which would mean it has to have two RCA jacks on the other end. A mono 3.5mm to single RCA is not allowed and would short the left and right outputs together.

I haven't tried it, but maybe I will give it a try tonight if I remember (my sub has dual RCA inputs for left and right, so it should have no issue with that setup, although I just use one from my AVR).

Well that does look correct.

Have you tried this set [Settings] — [Sound] — [Digital audio out] to [PCM].

I don't see why the digital audio out setting should affect the analog headphone/sub output. I guess it could, it just seems unlikely.

Yay - Sony shipped my replacement a1e for the stuck red pixel and it arrived yesterday. All setup, and everything looks great again.

Top tip though for people going through the same thing. Sony ship the replacement TV, and expect to collect the broken one. Which sounds fine - but with a couple of 'Delivery Logistic' people instead of "TV installers" it's quite hard work. The userguide is clear the TV should be left in the box and the a-frame assembled, then placed on the table top. The first thing the deliveres wanted to do, was take out the box and lay face down on the floor - I was really unhappy and stopped them doing that and asked them just to leave it in the small bottom piece of the box, and I'd put it back on the table. They then abused my old TV getting it into the remainder of the box - I signed to say when it left me it was in working condition - but I don't think it's going to survive the return trip

The "White Glove Service" really didn't live up to expectations, and setting up the TV after they'd left was much easier. They need to ship the TV with a spare box to take back the old TV, as the box is integral to the TV stability without the a-frame, and disassembling and reassembling the a-frame is longer than they were prepared to stay for.

Anyway, all sorted - and a happy tv owner again

Glad to hear you got it.....

So I just tried it. Stereo 3.5mm to dual rca red/white jacks to my PSB sub plugged into the headphone output on the back of the TV. Set headphone jack to subwoofer output in the settings. Works great. Certainly enhances the low end.

Glad to see you got it going.......

Screw, I'll just look stupid and ask it, how much does it affect the experience by the fact that the screen is tilted when you are down in the couch? For the people who actually got the TV.

Good to know it works! I will try again when I get home today.

Don't even notice it........

I assume you are talking about the TV using the kickstand, not when wall-mounted. If the former, you'll find many opinions both ways earlier in this thread -- some owners have zero issue with the 5-degree tilt, others don't like it. Some that don't like the slight tilt have found mounts that keep it vertical and seem to be happy (or at least have not complained here since.)

I personally have my A1E wall mounted. No issues for me as I tilt my panel slightly down for a better viewing angle and less reflections in my relatively bright family room.

Can anyone answer what the reason is for only 2 of the 4 hdmi ports being able to do 4k @ 60 Hz? Why not just make them all capable

Look at the specs in the first post. All support 4k @ 60hz. Ports 2 and 3 have support added for HDR.

IMHO, electronics companies are extremely cost sensitive in nearly every decision they make, and through their marketing analysis, the present design meets the balance between "average" consumer requirements vs cost to mfgr and therefore price to sell. (I admit most AVSForum posters are not your "average Joe" consumer, but then again when it comes to this sort of market analysis: Since I use an AVR, I'm an A1E owner that only cares about having ONE fully-capable HDMI port and ZERO internal speakers, so for me, I paid a lot more for capabilities I'll never use in my A1E. My usage case I'm sure balances out someone else in the bigger scheme of things. )

I did some testing today to see exactly what did and did not work with the various HDMI inputs and the Enhanced HDMI setting enabled and disabled for ports 2 and 3. For the test I used my Xbox One S Under display settings it it will break down what features are supported on a given connection. With the Enhanced HDMI setting enabled I get [email protected], [email protected], and [email protected] with 10 bit color depth and HDR on ports 2 and 3. With the setting Disabled, it reports no HDR support, and only 8 bit color depth. For ports 1 and 4, the same results were seen with ports 2 and 3 with the enhanced HDMI setting disabled See the attached Screen shots.

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Making the chip handling the inputs capable of handling 18Gbps on all four ports would be more complex than making it able to handle two ports at 18Gbps and two ports at 9Gbps. Those are some seriously high speed signals to handle. Had it been trivial, I am sure they would have made all the ports the same. The Z9D with the same X1E chip has the same things with two ports at 18 and two and 9Gbps. Same with the X930E and X940E as far as I can tell, also using the same chip. So simply a limitation of the X1E chip as designed.

It's not working for me still don't understand why so frustrating

This is the only option it gives me.

Read the specs on the first post. All 4 handle18Gbs. The only difference is HDR support when deep color is enabled.

Reading the manual that came with the TV:

HDMI IN 1/2/3/4 (Support 4K resolution,
HDCP 2.2-compatible)
Video:
4096 × 2160p (60 Hz)*1*2,
4096 × 2160p (24 Hz)*1,
3840 × 2160p (60 Hz)*2 ,
3840 × 2160p (24, 30 Hz),
1080p (30, 60 Hz),
1080/24p,
1080i (60 Hz),
720p (30, 60 Hz),
720/24p,
480p,
480i,
PC
Formats
*1 3840 × 2160p is displayed when
4096 × 2160p is input.
*2 HDMI IN 2 / 3 only.

So the manual says only port 2 and 3 can do 2160p at 60Hz. Port 1 and 4 are 30Hz only in that case, which exactly matches with the difference between having 9 and 18Gbps bandwidth.

I put my box away in storage. If I ever move I will want the TV to survive the move, and I don't think anything other than the original box will be a safe solution.

So I think a good tip is: Keep the box. You will need it if you ever move, or sell the TV, or apparently if you need it replaced under warranty.

Well as long as you plugged it into the right jack (I believe there is more than one 3.5mm jack on the back), and the TV is set to internal speakers, and the headphone jack config is set to subwoofer, and the subwoofer is on with volume turned up, then I think you are doing what I did when it worked. Hopefully you didn't get a TV with a broken headphone jack.

Did you try if you can use headphones with it?

That's not what the spec sheet on the first post says. Please look at it and confirm I'm reading it correctly. Maybe I'm reading it wrong.