My receiver can play Dolby Digital 5.1 but not DTS
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Topic: My receiver can play Dolby Digital 5.1 but not DTS
Posted By: Jake Kobrin
Subject: My receiver can play Dolby Digital 5.1 but not DTS
Date Posted: September 30 2011 at 13:59
I've been struggling with an issue for a while, which is that my audio receiver can play Dolby Digital 5.1 but NOT DTS, despite the fact that it says DTS on the receiver. It's quite frustrating because I haven't been able to hear the 5.1 mix of the King Crimson albums or most of the Porcupine Tree ones.  The receiver I'm using is a Sony STR-DE935. The receiver EXPLICITLY AVERTISES DTS which is why I'm so frustrated. Can anyone help?Also I'm considering buying one of these things, so I can listen to surround sound without waking up the neighbors. Do you think it'd be worth it? http://www.amazon.com/Force-Channel-Dolby-Surround-Processor-Mac/dp/B003O0KICS/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1315288848&sr=8-2" rel="nofollow - http://www.amazon.com/Force-Channel-Dolby-Surround-Processor-Mac/dp/B003O0KICS/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1315288848&sr=8-2 ------------- http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dr-Neil-Kobrin/244687105562746" rel="nofollow - SUPPORT MY FATHER AND BECOME A FAN Jacob Kobrin Illustration |
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: September 30 2011 at 17:30
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One would assume you've pressed the AFD button so it can automatically detect DTS format and your CD player is conected via the digital cable. ------------- What? |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: September 30 2011 at 19:17
My receiver can play Dolby Digital 5.1 but not DTSSo, you think you're better than the rest of us, eh?------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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Posted By: The T
Date Posted: September 30 2011 at 19:30
If the dvd player does the decoding itself, would it prevent the receiver from playing in the format you want? (I'm not too sure but things like that can happen with bluray players and the dts-hd and dolby-truehd formats if the signal is sent as bitstream or pcm. Somebody with knowledge? Dean?  )
Also of course a cd player hooked up only through analog stereo cables won't allow you to do any surround format so I guess you are trying on a dvd player hooked with a digital cable right? (or each channel via analog). ------------- 
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: September 30 2011 at 19:45
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The T wrote:Posted By: Jake Kobrin
Date Posted: October 01 2011 at 01:58
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It's a DVD player (I should have clarified) and the Dolby Digital stuff is clearly 5.1 and working, just that when I play anything in DTS there is no audio whatsoever. I don't know what an AFD button is, I'm sorry, but I've pressed just about every possible combination of buttons on the receiver trying to fix it. ------------- http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dr-Neil-Kobrin/244687105562746" rel="nofollow - SUPPORT MY FATHER AND BECOME A FAN Jacob Kobrin Illustration |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: October 01 2011 at 07:14
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Sorry about that, I was so thrilled about fixing my surround sound problem I didn't read your post closely enough. I was going to do exactly what Dean did and look it up and see if you were missing something. ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: October 01 2011 at 08:00
I have no experience of this, but seeing this thread was unanswered last night I downloaded a copy of the Sony STR-DE935 user manual last night and read through it hoping to help - in typical user manual style, it was as clear as mud, I took a guess at the AFD button as that was the only thing that mentioned DTS - normally this is set to "auto" and the receiver automatically detects the format coming in on the digital inputs from the DVD player.
I now suspect it is not the fault of the reciever, but of the DVD player - if it cannot output DTS (ie if the player does not mention "DTS" or "DTS digital out" anywhere) then you're stuck. The player does not need to have a DTS decoder, but it does need to have the capability to read DTS discs and output the data digitally. ------------- What? |
Posted By: Jake Kobrin
Date Posted: October 02 2011 at 13:28
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The DVD player does say that it can use DTS and I did press the AFD button. I have another, newer DVD player that I'll try. ------------- http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dr-Neil-Kobrin/244687105562746" rel="nofollow - SUPPORT MY FATHER AND BECOME A FAN Jacob Kobrin Illustration |
Posted By: Catcher10
Date Posted: October 02 2011 at 14:54
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I thought DTS meant Dream Theater Songs......my bad. -------------   
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Posted By: Jake Kobrin
Date Posted: October 02 2011 at 22:00
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This is the DVD player I have: http://www.amazon.com/Panasonic-DVDA120-DVD-A120-DVD-Player/dp/B00000JMUG As you can see, it says that it can run DTS. And this is the receiver: http://www.amazon.com/Sony-STR-DE485-Audio-Receiver-Surround/dp/B0000665PD/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1317610561&sr=1-1 The interesting thing is that it says the DVD player lacks a Dolby Digital decoder, which is odd seeing that that's the one that works. I'm thinking now that maybe DTS doesn't work because it's encoding with the DVD player before it gets to the receiver or something? Also I'm using an optical digital audio cord as opposed to a coaxial cable. Do you think that would make any difference? I looked on the manual of both and I can't see anything wrong with the setup. ------------- http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dr-Neil-Kobrin/244687105562746" rel="nofollow - SUPPORT MY FATHER AND BECOME A FAN Jacob Kobrin Illustration |
Posted By: Jake Kobrin
Date Posted: October 03 2011 at 12:03
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I got it to work! If anyone else has a ridiculous problem like this, the cause was because my DVD player automatically sets DTS to off for whatever stupid reason and I had to go into the DVD menu and change it to on. ------------- http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dr-Neil-Kobrin/244687105562746" rel="nofollow - SUPPORT MY FATHER AND BECOME A FAN Jacob Kobrin Illustration |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: October 03 2011 at 12:05
I told you it was DVD player problem  Glad you got it fixed  ------------- What? |