Nsanity on 20 November 2013
Kotaku
There's been some confusion about whether the Xbox One can play cable TV in surround sound. It can. There's a catch—a presumably temporary one
As I wrote in the New York Times last week and as we mentioned in our review of the console, the Xbox One will downgrade any surround sound audio that comes from a devices connected via its HDMI-in port to stereo. It does this by default.
That's odd and it's clearly not what Microsoft wants, since they actually are shipping the Xbox One with a TV surround sound option. That option is buried under a bunch of menus. It's labeled as being in "beta", though any user can access it and Microsoft intends to improve it.
http://kotaku.com/how-to-get-your-cable-tv-surround-sound-working-on-xbox-1468565797
