DTS DVD

Posted by Nigel Pond [SysOp] [IP: 206.241.18.4] on April 28, 1999 at 08:49:24
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In Reply to: DTS DVD posted by Ken Simmons on April 28, 1999 at 07:50:07:

Sorry Ken, your troubleshooting database requires an upgrade!!

In your method the DVD will be outputting an analogue signal derived from the compulsory Dolby Digital track on the DTS disc as that is the only track which the player can process in this way. If there is a problem with the encoding of the DTS track on the disc, its extraction and output, its transmission along the digital interconnect or its decoding in the receiver, your method will not reveal it.

It is possible that the problem may be an caused by some incompatibility between the codec used to encode the DTS track and the codec that the receiver is using. An older codec in the receiver may not be 100% compatible with the codec used to encode the DTS soundtrack. I had a similarly problem with dropouts on Telarc DTS audio discs using my DC-1. An upgrade to a newer decoding chip fixed it.

So in answer to the original poster's question there could be a number of things which are causing the dropouts you heard- a bad pressing of the disc, especially if they always occur in the same place; a dodgy digital cable, but then the dropouts would be more random; or a disc/receiver incompatibility. I would try first of all exchanging the disc or if you have a buddy with DTS capability try it out on his system, or even at your dealer. If a new copy of the disc still exhibits the same problem then one of the other suggestions may be the reason.

Follow Ups:

• DTS DVD - Octo 00:03:42 04/29/99 (3)
  • DTS DVD - Klaus Winkler 08:57:28 05/06/99 (2)
    • DTS DVD - Octo 20:34:56 05/07/99 (1)
      • DTS DVD - Klaus Winkler 04:03:35 05/12/99 (0)
• DTS DVD - Ken Simmons 19:30:18 04/28/99 (0)
• DTS DVD - Octo 10:21:11 04/28/99 (0)

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