You can now take pleasure in encompass sound whereas streaming YouTube TV content material in your Apple TV and Fire TV gadgets. As The Verge experiences, the streaming tv service has expanded the record of gadgets supporting its exhibits and flicks with 5.1 audio after rolling out the aptitude to Android TV, Google TV and Roku gadgets again in June. YouTube TV first began testing 5.1 channel audio for these first three gadgets again in March, whereas additionally promising to work on help for Apple TV and Fire TV gadgets, in addition to for gaming consoles. This rollout covers two out of these three — a tweet on the official YouTube TV web page says the service continues to be within the strategy of bringing the aptitude to consoles.

The Help page for YouTube TV would not explicitly point out Apple TV as a supported machine but, but it surely does record the Fire TV Stick 4K Max, Fire TV Stick, Fire TV Stick Lite, Fire TV Cube, Fire TV Stick 4K and Fire TV Stick with 4K Ultra HD. To notice, encompass sound is not obtainable for all YouTube TV content material, solely people who have it. So lengthy as a consumer is streaming on a suitable machine, 5.1 audio will probably be mechanically switched on. That stated, those that wish to ensure that it is obtainable for a selected video can achieve this by taking part in it, going to “More” underneath participant controls and choosing the “bug” icon. YouTube TV’s “Stats for nerds” will probably be displayed on the prime of the video, and it ought to present AC-3/EAC-3 within the codecs part if it has encompass sound.