Gifted this Belkin one to someone and they love it, super sleek and not some sketchy no-name brand like most of the ones on amazon

The time and date hasn’t moved?

Magsafe at home, have a handful of chargers where I most commonly set my phone down, I never have to think twice about charging my phone, when it’s set down, it’s charging. Have a cable in my car as I need it for carplay.

Have you tried a different HDMI cord or port? Sounds like an issue with that

Wait until you find out that a ton of early digital movies that claim to be 4k are just upscaled 2k.

Cinema is the best but too dark for anything but pitch black room viewing in my experience. I prefer Cinema Home with the Dolby Precision Detail setting on which further boosts shadow detail and is intended for “bright room” viewing.

because it’s using very basic bluetooth signal strength for location, it doesn’t have the dedicated U1/2 chips that AirTags would have.

It will likely work but you might miss out on some of the supported bands

I would have the Apple TV hooked up to the soundbar as it doesn’t support passthrough audio so you’ll get a slight audio delay without it especially for Atoms content.

Just sounds like they’re switching to whatever chip they make the most of

It’s likely going to stay exclusive to Sony TVs and products.