HomePod mini and original home pods could work in concert with an Apple TV to receive E arc from the TV and then broadcast that to the home pods. In this scenario, your Apple TV is acting as a little software powered receiver essentially. But unlike an actual receiver, Apple does not have all the weird controls for messing with the delay and everything. The HDMI spec itself has some synchronization stuff in it but setups can be wonky.

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