Home Audio question

JeremyC · Post by **JeremyC** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 2:48 pm

Ok guys here is the deal. I was walking thru the BX yesterday, (think on base walmart) and they had a Sony STR DB 1080 for 50% off with the normal waranty. The kicker, it didn't have a remoter / box / or manual.

Ok so here is my problem. I hooked it up to my dvd player (emerson) using the coax digital out, and it works fine when playing normal movies. Well I thru in the Lord of the Rings, and changed the dvd over to DTS ES 6.1 format, and I don't get any sound. Go back to Dolby Digital 5.1 and the sound comes back.

The thing is, both say they are compadable with DTS format, and I have been thru all the set up menues I can find (without a manual) and I can get it to work.

Oh yeah, I have searched every place I can think of, and still can't find a manual I can download.

Justin from Detroit1 · Mon Oct 31, 2005 2:54 pm

Are you sure both say they are DTS compatible? Because that sounds like a problem with one NOT being able to decode DTS.

JeremyC · Post by **JeremyC** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 3:27 pm

Yep both say DTS compadable. The only thing I can think of, is maybe I need to tell the receiver to look for DTS, and not Dolby.

Justin from Detroit1 · Mon Oct 31, 2005 3:37 pm

Hmmm I dunno. I have a better receiver then yours, but it automatically senses what sound is being used and switches to it. Maybe since yours is a little lower then mine, you have to do it manually.

JeremyC · Post by **JeremyC** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 4:01 pm

Well I found something, if I go to the set up menue it has dts decoding on and off, right now it is off and I can not for the life of me find how to turn it on.

Yeah mine does the auto sensing too, at leats it does for all other formats. I should work for all once I get the DTS turned on.

hay justin what model do you have? Any way I could check out a copy of the manual? It might help me with the set up on mine.

smoker · Post by **smoker** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 5:28 pm

unfortunately sometimes you have to have the remote to turn some things on and off....

JeremyC · Post by **JeremyC** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 6:39 pm

Yeah Smoker I was thinking the same thing, but the dts shares its menue with alot of other things that I can control from the receiver itself. The only diffrence, the dts is dimmed along with a few other settings. I can get the others to come up, if I change between other processing modes, but I can't get the dts to highlight so I can change it.

Robert Wollenberg · Post by **Robert Wollenberg** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 6:43 pm

Check the DVD players output and make sure it's turned on to DTS and check the DVD audio setup options and make sure they're on DTS.

Both the DVD and the DVD player probably have Digital audio options that need to be turned on. The DVD player anyway. Some DVDs do and some don't.

Justin from Detroit1 · Mon Oct 31, 2005 7:24 pm

Mine is a different brand.

JeremyC · Post by **JeremyC** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 7:54 pm

Airforceyooper wrote:Check the DVD players output and make sure it's turned on to DTS and check the DVD audio setup options and make sure they're on DTS.

Both the DVD and the DVD player probably have Digital audio options that need to be turned on. The DVD player anyway. Some DVDs do and some don't.

I can't find anything for the audio out for my DVD player. The only thing I could find, Is that when you set a dvd to DTS it uses the same coax output I have hooked to the receiver. So once I changed the dvd to DTS, the output should be good to go.

There has got to be a way to get DTS to highlite on my receiver so I can turn it on, I just can't find it.

Oh yeah talked to Sony's online suport, and I was quickly reminded why I don't use sony car audio. I really miss the Mobile ES days, man they need to go back to those times.