Today plays a bit of prominence for him Home Pod, especially now that we are focused on the € 99 HomePod Mini and how it could democratize the use of a device that until now was being quite prohibitive and therefore residual in sales by the Cupertino company.
The idea of the HomePod was always to offer high-quality sound, and for this they keep updating it with new possibilities. Soon you will be able to listen to Dolby Atmos sound on your HomePod through an Apple TV 4K, the company is already preparing it. The Apple TV and the HomePod are two elements that together offer a very interesting service.
According to The Verge, soon Apple TV 4K users (not the HD version) will have this possibility available. Throughout this past week we have been able to observe the arrival of iOS 14.2 and tvOS 14.2 Beta 3 in which there appears a section for the configuration related precisely to this functionality of adding Dolby Atmos to the HomePod like a speaker "permanently" connected to Apple TV. And this is how the integration of both devices will continue to bring improvements not only at the HomeKit level but also for the improvement of multimedia consumption.
They warn that yes, that the Dolby 5.1 and 7.1 will be able to run with a single HomePod, but we will have an informative warning that will recommend us to use at least two HomePods in stereo format to improve performance. This is how the HomePod seeks to approach the Amazon Echo Studio that has already offered these functionalities for some time and that accompanies high-quality sound with the compatibility of the most popular standards. In the meantime, The mystery remains about the possibility that the HomePod will run in the future a version of tvOS and not iOS as before.