Roku developed a soundbar reference design specifically for Roku TVs
The wireless connection in Roku’s design utilizes Wi-Fi, but in a point-to-point fashion between the soundbar and the TV, instead of sending the audio from the TV to the soundbar over your home’s Wi-Fi network. In a conversation with Roku’s VP of Product Strategy Mark Ely earlier this week, I learned that the specification uses a lossless lossy codec for streaming, but Ely wasn’t able to tell me whether the company was using FLAC or something else. I wasn’t able to learn the resolution or sample depth of the stream, either. Ely did say that the connection delivered excellent audio/...
Source: techhive.com