Home theater system only plays Pro logic, no digital or DTS

CAUTION- *DON'T* select DTS on the disc unless your receiver can decode DTS. From what I hear that can be a very loud and unpleasant experience (for both you and your speakers! :); evidently it comes through as *extremely* loud noise.

Glen makes a good suggestion- be sure you either have an onboard DD/DTS decoder in the DVD player (in which case you can run from the 5.1 analog outputs on the DVD to the 5.1 analog inputs on the receiver), or run a digital cable to either an outboard decoder, or directly into the digital input of your receiver.

Good luck!

Hi,

Thanks a lot for your help. I appreciate it all of your quick responses.

I put the DVD player in "digital out" mode, put in a regular music CD, unhooked the analog interconnects, connected the digital cable from "digital out" on my DVD player to "digital in" on my receiver and got no sound....frustrating silence. The PCM light did not light up on my reciever. I'm not getting a digital signal.

I am using a regular analog interconnect for a digital cable. I understand that it would work fine the only difference being digital is 75 ohm and analog is 50 ohm, the digital sounding better, I might be wrong.

What kills me is that there is an obvious solution(there has to be) and it's going to be very embarrassing when brought to my attention. (<:

Pete

Pete:
Check to make sure your receiver has the digital input configured for the DVD. On a number of receivers, the digital input can be assigned to different inputs. Made that mistake myself on a parasound 2500u

Yes,yes,yes!!!!!!!

That's it! I didn't have the "digital in" assigned properly.

Thank you very much Dearle, and all that cared enough to respond. I appreciate it! I'm one happy camper now!(<:

Pete