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Can't Get DTS to work ... Help!!!

I don't know too much about this stuff, so maybe someone can give me a hand.

I just bought a Sony STR-DE995 receiver (7.1 w/ DTS and all that jazz). On my old receiver I just ran a optical cable from my DVD player to my receiver to get 5.1 Dolby Digital sound. I tried to run my optical cable into my new receiver, but there was no specific optical input for DVD players (just TV, MD sumthin' or other, and CD/SACD). There is an input for a digital coaxial cable for a DVD player on the new receiver.

The optical cable gives me sound from my DVD player in the other inputs, but only of the basic Dolby Digital variety.

To get DTS, do I HAVE to buy a digital coaxial cable or is there some way I can get DTS by running the old optical cable into one of those other selections. Is there any chance I am just not setting it up on the receiver the right way?

Greg Kolinski

On most DVD players you have to manually choose the DTS option in the DVD player set up menu.I believe it needs to be set to bitstreem rater than PCM.This is kinda "muddy" ,hope someone can give a little clearer answer id you are still having problems.I had the same trouble first time I tried to use DTS.

Greg

Mike~Sileck

Generally those input labels are dynamic, they just put them there as refrence. Usually you can change the name's of the inputs that show up on the LCD screen, and I know for a fact it should allow you to get DTS 5.1, DD 5.1, and anything else. Make sure your dvd has the correct audio selection selected (i.e. Dolby Digital 5.1, not Dobly Stereo 2.0). Other than that, I'm not too familiar with this new reciever, so someone can help him tweak it? I know for a fact you don't need a coaxial cable tho, so don't worry about buying one.

Mike

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Shiu

Just use any of those optical input. If your DVD player could output DTS to your old receiver, it must have been set correctly (yes, bit stream)already. Of course you could use the digital input as well if you are willing to buy a digital coax cable.

Ed Moxley

You can re-assign the inputs to be what you want it for. If you use the cd input for the dvd player, you'll have to push the cd button on front/remote when you want to watch a dvd.Re-assigning will let it read dvd in the window display of the receiver. The manual should walk you through it, step by step. Just take your time....
If the dvd is already assigned to the digital coax input, by default, I'd just use that. Less confusing. To see if it works though, you can use the yellow rca cable (usually the composite video cable), to check it. That cable works because it's a 75 ohm cable. If it works, I'd still get a digital coax cable. It will have better connectors and better shielding. Should be able to get one at Radio Shack for about $8-$10.
You may need to go into the receiver's setup menus and enable that input for digital, instead of analog, even though it's assigned for dvd player. It's got to be something not set quite right in the setup of things.
Good luck! Let us know how it goes.........

Tim Stumpf

This may be obvious, but first make sure that your DVD player supports DTS. Just having a receiver that does is not enough. That happened to me. I thougth I was getting DTS when I bought my new receiver, not realizing that the source first needed to be able to send a DTS signal. Not to open a can of worms but I've read that's it's debatable anyway what you would be losing by not having DTS. I'm happily cruising along with just DD 5.1.

John Garcia

He said it worked fine previously.

I think Ed Moxley is correct - it sounds like in your receiver's setup menu you have to assign this digital input to the source (DVD) selection you are using on the receiver. This is how most current receivers work. Also, as Ed mentions, you may have to tell the receiver to use digital for this source as well, though in that case, you should get no sound.

On most discs with a DD or DTS track, the DTS almost always sounds better to me. If given a choice, I always go with DTS first.

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Tim Stumpf

You're probably right about the solution, but he never said DTS worked already on the old receiver. He said DD 5.1 worked. Which would still be true if the DVD player did not support DTS.

John Garcia

Oops, I though he said DTS also, but looks like he was referring to DD only. :b

By the way, have you tried reading your manual? If the manual doesn't say you can reassign digital inputs, then you may be stuck with coaxial only for DVD.

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Steve Schaffer

I have the impression that he did not have DTS decoding capability before, only DD. In this case he probably does not have the DTS output enabled on his dvd player as they all ship with DTS disabled.

He needs to drag out the owner's manual for the player and enable DTS bitstream output, then find out if he can re-assign one of the optical digital inputs on the receiver to DVD, or go ahead and use one of the optical inputs that works regardless of labelling and run video straight to the tv.

Steve S.
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