Can I pair two Bluetooth headphones to Apple TV to listen to the tv

I just bought my Apple TV 4K last week (January 2018), and can confirm two Bluetooth headphones CANNOT be connected at the same time. It disconnects the audio to one when you connect a second headphone. Both can be ”paired”, but you cannot listen to audio from two Bluetooth headphones at the same time on Apple TV 4K.

Has anyone figured out a workaround for this? My wife and I would like to watch some new movies while our newborn is sleeping, thought it would be great to have a new setup to show her, but the Bluetooth limitations are beginning to frustrate me.

I know there are wireless dongle things I can get and stream audio to multiple headphones, but I want something reliable without lag. Any suggestions?

That can' be right because Samsung galaxy s8 s8 plus and note 8 can do dual audio via Bluetooth even though they support Bluetooth 5 this isn't the reason why they do dual audio as Bluetooth 5 isn' activated in those phones yet. Surely there is a way for Apple to enable dual audio on the Apple tv 4 and 4k

if it is then I don't believe the a2dp profile support any sort of sync feedback so many people

complain that even with just 1 Bluetooth headset they can experience video and audio not being sync

then with multispeaker that would be even worse. there is not requirement of how long a headset/ speaker can spend on decoding and cleaning up the audio with filters and maybe cancel outside background noise.

Bluetooth 5 is the first standard that allows for pairing of simultaneous devices, so yes that would be the reason (it is based on hardware, and not something to be activated). The 4K supports BT 5 (which wasn't released when this thread was started) and will allow this, the 4th gen does not.

Again bluetooth 5 is based on the hardware, and not something that would be activated after. Simultaneous pairing only works with BT 5 so devices that had the older chip would not be able to take advantage of that

Ah, apparently not. I have new Bose sound-cancelling over-ear headphones and I just figured they had the latest capability. After some research, they do not. I was thinking of picking up a few new cheap 5.0 Bluetooth headphones to test it out. The way the prompt was worded on the apple tv leads me to believe it still wont work, but I will try and give an update here.

I am hoping that's a simple matter of time before the AppleTV 4K will support this since it does apparently implement Bluetooth 5, and BT5 does support broadcasting to multiple headphones simultaneously. How can we get Apple to listen to us and get them to provide a fix. Also, I would have thought that BT5 would only need to be implemented on the device controlling the audio ie AppleTV or say a modern IPhone/IPad. BT4 headphones should see no difference and just work as if receiving from a source device which is paired to it in isolation. (Just speculation though, really because I have just bought a pair of BT headphones which are only BT 4.1 I think, argh I might have to send them back and look for BT5 ones).

This has nothing to do with Apple. They have already implemented BT 5 on the ATV, the headphones would also need to support it in order to take advantage of its features. This has always been the case.

Are you sure about what you're saying? I get your point about the headphones and that they need to implement BT5, but I have not seen any evidence anywhere that although AppleTV 4K supposedly implements BT5, that you can actually stream to multiple compatible BT headphones at the same time. I hope to be wrong on this and if so I will definitely returning the BT headphones I've recently bought (they haven't arrived yet). All I have seen so far is that you can pair multiple headphones and select a single pair to listen through, but as soon as you select another pair the other one gets disconnected (It's just occurred to me that whoever reported that wasn't using BT5 headphones ). If you're right, then I'll be also be dashing out to buy an AppleTV 4K too.

Hi TMNTony, can you confirm what version of Bluetooth your earphones are? vazandrew made a valid comment about the headphones also needing to support BT5. I have tried looking for a pair of BT5 headphones and they are not really available yet, so I would be surprised if your headphones were and that may be the cause of the issue.

Yes, playback on more than one device is one of the features of the new BT standard. Again, the headphones would need to support that new standard and as it's fairly new there isn't much available yet. Pairing multiple devices is already possible and has been for quite some time.

http://www.trustedreviews.com/news/what-is-bluetooth-5-2947121

It’s not a matter of Bluetooth limitation as Mac OS supports multiple output devices. I recently paired my wife’s and my Beats to my MacBook Pro in order to watch a movie together in a noisy environment. https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/174136/how-can-i-aggregate-two-pairs-o f-headphones-microphones-into-one-audio-stream-us

Yes it is, one can pair multiple devices but the Bluetooth protocol has, up until now, only allowed for playback on one device. BT 5 is the first standard that has increased bandwidth to allow for simultaneous playback on two devices.

http://www.trustedreviews.com/news/what-is-bluetooth-5-2947121

Hi. No, you cannot. Bluetooth only supports one headphone or speaker at a time. This is part of the Bluetooth protocol. Sorry.

Actually although Samsung's flagships have Bluetooth 5 installed they are not activated due to android 7.1.1 in android 8.0 they will be activated until then they use Bluetooth 3.0 for audio