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In Reply to: Re: dvd sound. posted by bdiament on February 05, 2003 at 06:27:23:

Thanks for all the info. Just for jollies, I decided to review some of the titles in my small collection of DVD's to see if they actually had stereo or 2 channel steeings. The results are interesting:
Blade Runner.........................no
Buckaroo Banzai......................no
Casablanca...........................no
Harry Potter & the Socerer's Stone...no
Hedwig & the Angry Inch..............YES
Lawrence of Arabia...................YES
Mulan................................no
Spirit...............................YES
Wizard of OZ.........................no
H'mmm. Only one third of the titles have this option. My DVD player has the following settings:
Digital Output - PCM or Bitstream (set to PCM)
DTS - on or off (off)
Dynamic Compression - on or off (doesn't seem to make any difference)
2x Audio Scan - on or off (doesn't seem to make any difference)
Is this a conspiracy to get us to buy new receivers and lots more speakers. I would appreciate any more info. I'm confused. And I am turning those DVD's way up. The B&O puts out about 35 watts per channel, but I really would not think that it would matter that much.

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Re: dvd sound. - srinisr 12:54:22 02/05/03 (3)
Those are audio settings. Look for the speaker setup option.
BTW what is the model number of your Samsung DVD player model?
- Re: dvd sound. - circlip 05:23:29 02/06/03 (2)
  I can not seem to find any speaker setup options. I have a choice of 2 channel analog out or digital out via optical or coax. These are just the back jacks. No specific "speaker" settings on the machine. It does have a 3d sound feature for stereo output. This sounds like it works with discs recorded in Dolby Surround or Dolby Digital, but needs to be set for each disc. I'm going to play with that and see what happens.
  The DVD player is a Samsung DVD-M301.
  - Re: dvd sound. - srinisr 08:56:44 02/06/03 (1)
    The speaker setup options are not on the player. On my Samsung player the remote has a button labelled SETUP. When you press this option while a disc is playing you get several setup options on the screen - one of which is for setting up the speakers.
    I am not familiar with your DVD player but this is a fairly standard option found on most DVD players.
    hope this helps
    SS
    - Re: dvd sound. - circlip 13:20:26 02/08/03 (0)
      Thanks. My model does not have that particular setup. I quess yiu get what you pay for. I'll put it in the "Book of Great Lessons".

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