Posts by James Carpenter

Is this disc region free?  I've read that most of Sony's discs are, but I wanted to be sure before placing an order.

I just finished watching this and the subtitle problem is worse than reported. Due to some kind of error the "forced" English/Russian subtitles do not work unless the English subtitles are engaged. So it's all or nothing. This should...

Well, I figured out what happened. The wonderful people at Target put all the standard dvd's in the blu-ray sales slot, because they didn't have any blu-rays in stock. Very thoughtful of them.

I bought the trilogy today and everything I've read indicated that these movies had TrueHD tracks, but all I'm able to find is the standard DD 5.1 EX track on Star Trek 2. The disc defaults to Dolby digital and there's nothing in the...

I remember reading a thread a number of months back where someone mentioned that the Yamaha 4600 had a problem with LFE (it didn't process it correctly) when using HDMI for the audio connection. I was wondering if anyone might have...

This is probably a stupid question, but is region coding an issue with blu-ray movies - will it play in my sony bdp-s1? Also is there any playback issues because of pal/ntsc, or is that a non-factor with high definition?

Are there any other differences associated with dialogue normalization being used on TrueHD tracks other than lower sound levels? Just curious, because when comparing the differences between the TrueHD and Dolby Digital Plus (on films...

That was one of the first things I did when I set up the player, but just to be sure I went in to the menu and turned the dialog enhancement on, then back off. For some reason that I can't explain this seemed to fix the problem. A...

I just watched this the other night in Dobly TrueHD on the new Toshiba HD-A2 and it sounded great, but for some reason I found the bass to be lacking when comparing it to the regular Dolby Digital Plus track. Anyone else have this...

I'm using a Yamaha RXV-4600 HDMI receiver with the Toshiba HD-A1. I'd like to use the HDMI output to take advantage of the new audio codecs (Dolby Tru and Dolby Digital Plus) rather than the 6 channel analogue outputs. My question is...