Why does my A / V receiver shows DTS When playing an HDDVD is Dolby Digital Plus or Dolby TrueHD?
I have a Toshiba HD-A2 Player and a VR-715 A / V Kenwood receiver. Connection as follows … HDMI to my Sony Wega 50 "from the HD player with a digital optical cable from TV to the receiver. Any ideas?
Us There are three basic requirements for playing Dolby Digital Plus multi-channel audio: 1. The DVD should be properly encoded for the Dolby Digital Plus multi-channel. (To verify the type of audio encoding used to encode the audio soundtrack and DVD information table using the soundtrack, along with Dolby Sound Mode icon, located in the lower left cover of the DVD packaging [1]), 2. (A) HD DVD (or Blu-ray) disc player must support Dolby Digital Plus and will be equipped with an HDMI cable or IEEE1394 (FireWire) connection, or (b) your HD DVD (or Blu-ray) disc player must support (ie decode) Dolby Digital Plus and will have discrete analog channel to multiple audio outputs, 3. You must use an A / V receiver that accepts (and decode) Dolby Digital Plus multi-channel audio or can receive PCM audio decoded multichannel (up to 8 channels of PCM audio at 192 kHz, 24 bits per sample) via an HDMI cable or IEEE1394 (FireWire) input, or accepts discrete multichannel analog audio inputs. [2] [3] How do you know your Kenwood VR-715 A / V surround receiver has no HDMI or IEEE1394 (FireWire) connections and does not support (or decode) Dolby Digital Plus multi-channel audio (or any multi-channel audio format audio outputs capable of more than 5.1.) Likewise your Toshiba HD-A2 does not support discrete multichannel analog – only TOSlink to HDMI and S / PDIF digital audio out (they do not not support Dolby Digital Plus *.) The Kenwood VR-715 supports Dolby Digital (AC-3), DTS (5.1), and PCM audio signals. For multi-channel audio playback control your input mode settings (see page 8 of your Kenwood VR-715 Instruction Manual [4]) to make sure your receiver A / V is configured to use any digital audio format you prefer (I recommend using Dolby DTS over Digital/AC-3 when possible) or is set to "auto" detection mode. Note: Dolby Digital Plus multi-channel audio compatible Dolby Digital (AC-3). Dolby Digital Plus encoded content will be converted to 640 kbps Dolby Digital (AC-3) for playback on devices that support Dolby Digital Plus multi-channel audio * "To get the maximum possible benefit from Dolby Digital Plus, you should connect your HD DVD player to your AV receiver using its HDMI audio capable. If the AV receiver has this type of input (s), make sure one of them is connected to your HD DVD player and that entry is set to use audio from HDMI (and not the SPDIF coaxial or optical input). If your AV receiver does not has an HDMI input, but can decode DTS, then the best choice to make is to use the SPDIF (coaxial or optical) input on your AV receiver. Although this connection has enough bandwidth to carry the full, high quality Dolby Digital Plus, DTS will support – the highest bandwidth commonly available method coding that works on SPDIF. [5]
