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Sony STR-DE835 and Sony DVP-530D
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Post 1 made on Friday October 29, 1999 at 22:03
Mark
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I just recently purchased the reciever and have had the DVD player for a few months. Since hooking up the DVD to the reciever via s-video and a TOS to TOS fiber optic cable. I have been unable to get the reciever to detect a Dolby Digital Signal. The DVD player displays that it is sending a Dolby Digital signal, but the reciever thinks that it is a normal stereo signal. Does anyone have any ideas? I have already replaced the cable, but it did not make a difference.
OP | Post 2 made on Saturday October 30, 1999 at 00:33
Todd J. Derr
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I think this got me at first too - because it doesn't work by default :( You need to go into Setup on the DVD player, pick Audio Setup, and change 'Dolby Digital' from 'D-PCM' to 'Dolby Digital'. This is allegedly to protect people who are using a digital connection without a DD decoder from getting a bunch of nasty noise.

Otherwise, make sure the receiver is in the proper input mode (it should say 'optical' on the display). If not, change it with the 'input mode' button. Also, I don't think that this is necessary, but set the sound field on the receiver to 'Auto Format Decode' or one of the Cinema modes. As long as you do that, the receiver should decode a DD signal if present, it will display 'Dolby Digital #/#' for a few seconds when it detects the signal and the blue light will come on.

On the DVD player, I don't think the blue light being on necessarily implies that it is sending DD out; only that DD is present on the DVD or is being read. i.e. it could still be on even if it's downmixing (D-PCM setting).

The only other thing I can think of is that some (mainly older) DVDs select the stereo track by default instead of DD, if this is the case and the DVD has a DD track, cycle through with 'Audio' until you find it.

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