The "BD Audio" setting when set to "direct" and the "audio priority" set to "HDMI" the S550 should negotiate with your receiver to determine if it can decode the HD Audio codecs. If the receiver can't but can accept multi-channel LPCM, the player will decode HD Audio codecs to LPCM and send it...
According to the manual you use "function" then "input mode" and select "ext in". You might also double-check to make sure you have things connected properly. Looks like the External inputs are directly above the Pre-outs. Can't you just avoid the multi channel analog inputs and send 7.1...
Depends on the capabilities of your receiver. If you receiver has 5.1 analog input (6 input jacks on the back of your receiver) then you could set the S550's "audio output priority" to "multi channel analog" and then the "bd audio" to "direct" then change the "speaker settings" in the S550 to...
My first DVD player was around '96 or so, was the DVP-S7000. Probably spent close to $1k on it. Couldn't do DTS, couldn't play burned DVD's very reliably... My first BD player was somewhere mid 2007. The BDP-S300. Don't remember the exact cost...seem to remember it being in the $300 range.
You'll need to change the "Audio Output Priority" to "multi channel analog" and the "BD audio" setting to "direct". You'll get DTS-MA HD 7.1 decoded to 7.1 LPCM though analog. The S550 display button will show "DTS-HD Master Audio 3/4.1 48khz" Without "BD Audio" set to "direct" you will...
Rocksalt shotgun loads are an old farmer's trick to scare the crap out of kids monkeying around. Rocksalt would have just enough to maybe penetrate clothing and really sting, but not enough to kill someone, enough to remind you that you wouldn't want to get caught again. I thought that scene...
I think Ed dug up a lot of bodies...only killed two people by his own hand. I think it was a small enough town that if someone went missing...it was noticed. I watched the doc last night, one of his victims had been reported missing for a while, until they found parts of her at Gein's....So I...
Yeah...I brought the set (minus the tin sheet) into work today to let one of my horror affeciado friends borrow and almost dropped the discs out the bottom of the dust cover to the asphalt in the parking lot. Then handing it over to my friend...he almost did the same thing... Can't wait 'til I...
Thanks for the suggestion...Does slipping it in the inside pocket risk bending the embossed metal out of shape with the "evidence" packet in there, and then slipping the slip case it into the dust jacket? **grumble** I think I would have prefered some kind of tabs on the dust jacket that would...
So I finally got around to picking up the TCM special edition yesterday. Among the "extras" advertised on the stick on label on the shrink wrap was the words "removable metal cover". So I removed the shrink wrap and the "removable" metal cover just falls out, being only held in place with the...
In my work we are constantly handling (perhaps mishandling) DVD's. They have a tendency to get scratches and swirl marks, along with figerprints over time. On a wim I picked up one of those goofy looking DVDdr http://www.digitalinnovations.com/ I took a pretty badly scratched and scuffed disc...
Well, I'm happy they finally came to an agreement...I won't have to watch Survivor and CSI in OTA snowy-vision tonight. I was tempted to switch to Direct myself if Dish wasn't going to be able to keep CBS/MTV/MTV2 etc... Though it does still worry me that the Chuck Chat replay on 101 lumped...
That is precisely what I'm getting at. I'm not saying I should be invited to the board meeting. I'd just like to know how much that rate increase will affect my monthly bill so that I can determine whether I feel that in order to watch MTV/MTV2/VH1/CBS, etc.. justifies an X dollar increase in my...
My beef is that I think the decision regarding a rate increase should be left up to me, the consumer. Let me decide if I think that the rate increase is unreasonable. They are going to give me a $1 credit on my bill to account for the lost of programming...I'd be willing to pay an additional $1...
Not all the Viacom channels have been pulled. I think that there are only a few channels that are being pulled out of Viacom's collection. Dish Network's Programming Packages listed on their website have already been updated to show the absence of VH1, MTV/MTV2, UPN, etc. The only music video...
Well great! What would I do with out Dish Network protecting my brain from being addled by too much redundant cartoon programming?! Well I'm about to write Chuck and see what kind of an autoreply response I get... Erik
What I can't figure out is exactly what Dish is sticking up for. And they are a bit shifty on what kind of a deal Viacom is trying to offer them... According to Dish "Viacom has demanded higher rate increases which are unreasonable..." somewhere else I saw them state that it was a 40% rate...
Sounds to me like Viacom is feeding Dish a little of their own medicine. Imagine being forced to buy channels you don't want? Shocking isn't it!? I've got plenty of channels on my Dish that I don't want but still have to pay for them to get the ones I DO want! I've been a loyal Dish subscriber...
Keep in mind that El Mariachi was done extremely cheap and Robert never expected it to be as big as it became, rather expecting a Spanish home video release and a way to prove he could make a film. Desperado was more less a re-make of El mariachi with a larger (but very small compared to other...
I traveled 3+ hrs to Dallas from Austin last night to catch this film. I had been a loyal viewer of the series and wanted to see how the finished film turned out as well as support the effort. I was disappointed for much of the same reasons Ebert had. I think no one will dispute that LeBeouf...