DTS’s Play-Fi multiroom audio platform is getting a big home theater upgrade
Image: DTS Play-Fi, the multiroom audio platform from DTS, is getting a home theater upgrade with Play-Fi Home Theater, a new set of wireless audio features designed to cut down on the amount of cables needed when using a TV with external speakers. Play-Fi Home Theater works using a TV's built-in Wi-Fi with no adapters, no dongles, and no add-on boxes" according to DTS, and is launching with as-yet unnamed TVs in the third quarter of this year.
DTS's Play-Fi standard has been around for close to a decade, and is designed to let you build up a multiroom audio setup using speakers and other components from different manufacturers. That's in contrast to systems like Sonos, which only streams to Sonos-branded equipment. The standard can already be...