I'm going to do some testing with the Shield hooked directly into the Tv, and using ARC to the receiver. I've been living with the absolutely obnoxious issue of an audio lag after play/pause condition that is apparently "as designed" by Nvidia with DD signals. Apparently they don't have the license for the DD decoding, and do not implement comfort noise on the output with pass-through and default back to PCM, which introduces the lag to occur. Using the Shield to Tv with ARC seems to remove this