Ok, so I have my DVD player hooked up to the receiver via optical cable. In the DVD players menu there was an option “Digital Output” with two choices DTS or Dolby Digital. I chose Dolby Digital. Does this mean that when I go into the menu on a movie and have the option of DD or DTS that it won’t make a difference since the DVD player is decoding the DTS and sending it as DD?
The reason I ask this is because last night I was watching a movie that had sound options of DTS or Dolby Surround and it got me wondering about that again.
Also, another question. Is there anything that can be done so that when someone walks from one side of the TV to the other (the person in the movie) while there talking, there isn’t such a noticible jump from the left or right speaker to the center or vice versa? My left, right and center are matched (I bought them seperatly but they are made to work together in a surround sound setting) and are of good quality. They only thing I’m wondering about is that the center speaker is on top of the TV and the left and right are in the corners by the ceiling, so they are about 5 or so feet higher and 4 or 5 feet on either side of the TV. I don’t think that’s enough to cause such a noticible difference,
Your DVD player is not decoding the DTS. The reason that it gives you the option of what type of output you want is because if you are listening to a DTS track and your reciever does not have a DTS decoder built in, or you don’t have an external DTS decoder module, you will hear no sound what so ever. That is why you get the option. If you don’t have a DTS decoder then it will default to DD5.1 output.
So, if your receiver has a DTS decoder built in, then you want to set the output of the DVD player to DTS. If it doesn’t, then you don’t.
Also, as far as yoru problem with the movements in sound between speakers, your reciever should have the ability to set the gain on each of your speakers seperately as well as the delay to each speaker. If you tinker around with your center you should be able to match it up with your fronts if they are close to the same size and power.
Let me change what I said before. I have a Downmix setting that can be set to Dolby Surrond or Normal (I have it set to Dolby Surround), a Dolby Digital setting which can be D-PCM or Dolby Digital (I have it set to DD I believe) and a DTS which I can set to Off or On (I have it set to Off)
Also yesterday when I was watching that movie I did set it to DTS and didn’t notice a difference.
If it makes a difference I have a Sony DVP-NS400D