Dolby True-HD and DTS-HD (1 Viewer)

[Steve Tannehill]

A note on Dolby True-HD.

While Phantom of the Opera has the track, it will not play on the Toshiba HD-A1 because that player only handles 2-channel Dolby True-HD, not 5.1 channel. I don't know if the player is complaining about it, or the movie--but the 5.1 track will not play back or downconvert.

Do we want to get into how the Toshiba player converts DD+ to 1536kbps DTS on certain discs, if you use optical/coaxial digital connections and choose bitstream output?

I am not making this up!

- Steve

 

[andy wells]

Not sure if I did something wrong.. I bought a few audio cables to run an analog 5.1 mix to hear the dolby plus track. I had the cables going from the player to the reciever. When I did the "speaker test" to adjust the volume levels,there was a "white noise" sound from each one, one at a time. oddly this same sound also came from the sub. Is that normal? I expected a low rumble.. I tried playing the movie (serenity) and the bass was nowhere NEAR what it was when I used the digital cable (and bitstream).. I cranked my subs bass up and still was VERY weak. I switched it back to the digital connection and it was the same seat shaking bass I'm accustomed to.. I can't help but think I may have missed something...:b

 

[Steve Tannehill]

Your crossover frequency may be set too high on the subwoofer, hence you may be picking up higher frequency white noise. Then if you are not turning it up enough, you will not get the bass you expect.

Also, are you calibrating with an SPL meter?

http://www.radioshack.com/product/in...ductId=2103668

- Steve

 

[Paul.S]

Bill Hunt has some comments on the HD aud formats and the Tosh HD DVD players' processing of them (or not) in today's post.

 

[DaViD Boulet]

There is also more than enough talk about this over at AVS. Roger Dressler is even chiming in.

If I get the energy, I'll post some summary points over here to highlight the basic issues (much of what has already been covered here).