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Old 13-09-2009, 10:24
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Hi,

Plea for help on behalf of my brother. He's just taken delivery of a new Sony Bravia, with the free Bluray player thrown in with this (good deal @ JL!). He has an existing Yamaha receiver, which is a few years old. Problem is this; when playing back DVDs of recent movies from his new Sony BR player, inc. Matrix, Watchmen, Dark Knight, Wanted etc, these play in full Dolby Digital - the light on the rcvr indicates so.

But when he plays BR discs and I've witnessed this now, only the menu portion of certain discs play in either DD or DPL and then revert to DPL for the duration of the movie. Worse still, on the following BR discs - Wanted, T2, Wall-e, Saw 5, the Yamaha plays no sound at all, once past the menu stage. It's really weird. BRs of TDK, Watchmen, Casino Royale play fine ie, full Dolby Digital throughout. The connection to the rcvr is a coaxial. He has a PS3, which connects via optical to the same rcvr and same problems experienced. The audio settings on the BR player = coaxial and set at Dolby Digital.

Is this a case of the rcvr not being up to the job and can't handle new BR discs and the sound formats outputted? Is there a difference in the audio from a standard DVD as opposed to BR, which the Yamaha is having issues with? And why only play the menu / beginning parts of the movies and only go onto either downgrade the sound to DPL or play nothing at all?

I think it's time to jack the Yamaha in and get a new Sony rcvr, but he's reluctant to do so / cost / Mrs will kill him!

Thanks for any answers received.
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Old 13-09-2009, 11:42
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Hi,

Plea for help on behalf of my brother. He's just taken delivery of a new Sony Bravia, with the free Bluray player thrown in with this (good deal @ JL!). He has an existing Yamaha receiver, which is a few years old. Problem is this; when playing back DVDs of recent movies from his new Sony BR player, inc. Matrix, Watchmen, Dark Knight, Wanted etc, these play in full Dolby Digital - the light on the rcvr indicates so.

But when he plays BR discs and I've witnessed this now, only the menu portion of certain discs play in either DD or DPL and then revert to DPL for the duration of the movie. Worse still, on the following BR discs - Wanted, T2, Wall-e, Saw 5, the Yamaha plays no sound at all, once past the menu stage. It's really weird. BRs of TDK, Watchmen, Casino Royale play fine ie, full Dolby Digital throughout. The connection to the rcvr is a coaxial. He has a PS3, which connects via optical to the same rcvr and same problems experienced. The audio settings on the BR player = coaxial and set at Dolby Digital.

Is this a case of the rcvr not being up to the job and can't handle new BR discs and the sound formats outputted? Is there a difference in the audio from a standard DVD as opposed to BR, which the Yamaha is having issues with? And why only play the menu / beginning parts of the movies and only go onto either downgrade the sound to DPL or play nothing at all?

I think it's time to jack the Yamaha in and get a new Sony rcvr, but he's reluctant to do so / cost / Mrs will kill him!

Thanks for any answers received.
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Does the Yammy support DTS playback? Some BR discs have a default playback in this format so the amp won't produce any sound. If this is the case, check the BR menus to see if you can switch to a DD soundtrack.
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Old 13-09-2009, 19:32
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Thanks for the reply. I've Wanted on BR and playing through my PS3 and Sony rcvr, which does have DTS / DD 6.1 etc (slightly newer) I don't have an issue. On that disc, there's no option within the menus to select the surround type.

Anyway, he'll a check wtiht the other discs (which i don't have) and probably will report no joy. His new BD360 deffo works, as he dragged it round to my place and quickly hooked it up to my rcvr, to eliminate whether the BR player was at fault. It played perfectly ok with that Wanted disc.

Ho hum. Cheers.
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Old 14-09-2009, 19:42
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I have the Sony 350 and a 10 year old yamaha amp. My amp will decode DD and dts. I think he needs to set the dts output to core only on the Blu ray player.
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Old 14-09-2009, 20:27
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I have the Sony 350 and a 10 year old yamaha amp. My amp will decode DD and dts. I think he needs to set the dts output to core only on the Blu ray player.
Not familiar with the Sony 360, but if they are connected via optical/coaxial the player(s) will/should be set to bitstream, therefore the audio output will default to the DTS core anyway.

My guess is the amp does not decode DTS.

If this is the case they could select PCM for DTS soundtracks and listen via DPL/DPLII or purchase a new receiver.
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