Sonos has launched a recruitment drive which suggests the home audio system company is looking to expand into the home theatre market.<\/p>\n
Protocol discovered and reported the job postings, including Principal Platform Product Manager<\/em><\/a><\/strong>, Head of Partnerships, Home Theatre<\/em><\/a><\/strong>, and UX Lead \u2014 Next Generation Home Theater Experience<\/em><\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n The UX Lead position requires at least eight years of experience designing user experiences for \u201cproducts across mobile and TV that have successfully shipped.\u201d<\/p>\n Additionally, the Head of Partnerships, Home Theater<\/em> advertisement mentions a \u201cNext Generation Sonos Home Theater OS\u201d, hinting at the company\u2019s plans.<\/p>\n Sonos does not produce anything resembling a home theatre operating system (OS), but it does make whole-home audio systems like soundbars and speakers.<\/p>\n One of the options would be for the company to take a similar approach to Roku and Amazon\u2019s Fire TV to integrate this new Home Theater OS into an existing Sonos soundbar.<\/p>\n Protocol reported<\/a><\/strong> that Sonos had previously pursued partnerships where its audio hardware could be embedded into a collaborating TV manufacturer\u2019s products.<\/p>\n Its Home Theatre OS plans could form part of that push, the report stated. Sonos already uses third-party TV remotes or an app to control its audio systems.<\/p>\n Alternatively, it could also licence its operating system to TV manufacturers for use in smart TVs just like Google, LG, and Amazon have done.<\/p>\n Sonos has its eyes on creating a new Home Theater Operating System to enter the smart TV market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341094,"featured_media":438490,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,16],"tags":[723,24384,77412,28212,52809,50895,3872],"class_list":["post-438486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gadgets","category-software","tag-amazon","tag-fire-tv","tag-home-theatre-os","tag-roku","tag-smart-tvs","tag-sonos","tag-webos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438486"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341094"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":438514,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438486\/revisions\/438514"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nNow read: DStv starts limiting streaming to one device<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"