PLII Movie vs PLII Game (1 Viewer)

[Tralis]

PLII (Well, PLIIx) has three settings on my reciever, PLII Game, Movie, and Music. I know Music routes more to the Front L&R speakers as compared to Center and has a few adjustable settings. What exactly is the difference between PLII Game and PLII Movie?

 

[zpdrummer]

they arent huge differences, they all create 5.1 from a stereo signal what i discovered, is that the prologic music has more treble in it and comes primarily from the front speakers
movies has a deeper bass than music but less highs, the sound more often flows to the back speakers (probably a different alogrithm)
mine doesnt have a game feature, but im guessing it moves around easily like the movie setting. as for sound...i have no idea, but i assume it would have lots of mids and lows
(just a side note) mine had mono music decoder so it was music eq, but spatially, it was almost uniform across all the speakers, even the rear ones

 

[GregK]

It sounds as if the DPLII Game mode handles bass management differently.
Dolby | Technology | Dolby Pro Logic IIx FAQ

 

[Mark M. Smith]

My receiver defines it as:

"The Pro Logic IIx Game mode sends surround channel bass signals to the
subwoofer to preserve visceral impact."

Personally I use it with games as a vast majority of games for the Gamecube and Playstation 2 were encoded with matrixed surround sound. Since they were matrixed I presume that they were mixed with the intent that they be decoded with Game as opposed to Cinema.

I find that in the Guitar Hero games that utilize it Game mode generally sounds better grounded while Cinema mode often sounds slightly off.