Is Sonos looking to jump into the streaming video market?

We have extensive believed of Sonos as getting all about related audio, from the Sonos One clever speaker to the Sonos Amp. But it turns out Sonos may perhaps have far more than audio on its thoughts, with the business placing out feelers about a “new residence theater project” probably involving streaming online video.

Protocol has unearthed a collection of career postings linked to a “Next Era Home Theater OS,” which includes a UX (user working experience) direct, a merchandise supervisor for building an “OS & Media System roadmap,” and a “Head of Partnerships” for residence theater who would “play a pivotal position in connecting users to the material and companies they really like.”

In the meantime, submitting on LinkedIn about a “new home theater venture,” Sonos Main Innovation Officer Nick Millington place out a simply call for these with “experience…in a streaming media-associated field” this kind of as video clip.

Sonos is definitely no stranger to streaming media, what with its deep bench of linked speakers and its Sonos Radio streaming provider. Sonos also has its household theater-centered soundbars, together with the Beam (the 2nd-technology model arrived out past fall) and the Sonos Arc.

But Sonos does not have something like a streaming movie participant, nor a soundbar with an built-in streaming player, like the Roku Streambar.

The work postings observed by Protocol really do not give any hint as to what form of new components Sonos may possibly be planning. 

That stated, the position listings (which seem to have been posted only times back) contact on this kind of qualifications as awareness of “OS item administration,” “modern functioning systems” these types of as Android Television set, “A/V codecs,” and DRM, which can make it sound like Sonos is mulling one thing a lot more than just a different soundbar.

Protocol also reports that the concept of a Sonos soundbar “capable of running clever-Tv set apps” was (at the extremely least) “under consideration” at some point.

A Sonos rep explained the enterprise did not have any remark about its job postings.