Is Sonos looking to jump into the streaming video market?

We’ve very long assumed of Sonos as staying all about related audio, from the Sonos One particular smart speaker to the Sonos Amp. But it turns out Sonos may possibly have extra than audio on its mind, with the organization putting out feelers about a “new property theater project” possibly involving streaming video clip.

Protocol has unearthed a series of work postings associated to a “Next Era Household Theater OS,” including a UX (consumer knowledge) guide, a item supervisor for building an “OS & Media Platform roadmap,” and a “Head of Partnerships” for home theater who would “play a pivotal function in connecting end users to the content material and products and services they really like.”

In the meantime, publishing on LinkedIn about a “new dwelling theater task,” Sonos Main Innovation Officer Nick Millington set out a connect with for those with “experience…in a streaming media-connected field” this sort of as online video.

Sonos is certainly no stranger to streaming media, what with its deep bench of connected speakers and its Sonos Radio streaming company. Sonos also has its home theater-focused soundbars, which includes the Beam (the next-generation model arrived out last slide) and the Sonos Arc.

But Sonos doesn’t have everything like a streaming movie participant, nor a soundbar with an integrated streaming participant, like the Roku Streambar.

The work postings uncovered by Protocol never give any hint as to what kind of new components Sonos may well be setting up. 

That reported, the career listings (which seem to have been posted only days back) contact on this sort of qualifications as knowledge of “OS merchandise management,” “modern functioning systems” these types of as Android Television set, “A/V codecs,” and DRM, which makes it audio like Sonos is mulling anything a lot more than just one more soundbar.

Protocol also studies that the idea of a Sonos soundbar “capable of running wise-Television apps” was (at the extremely the very least) “under consideration” at some issue.

A Sonos rep mentioned the enterprise did not have any comment about its task postings.