admin wrote:
[Dolby Surround will coming either from Digital output (stereo) or Analog output (stereo) if present and will be processed as Prologic/Surround taking a 2.0 signal into left/center/right/surround.
Julien
As a newbie to AC-3 I bought a Yamaha DDP-1 not realizing at the time Dolby Surround and Dolby Digital were different (most of my discs are D.S.).
I did some tests with a DS & DD disc using the rf-out, and digital-outs (toslink and rca) from the CLD-99:
With the D.S. disc, the DDP-1 recognized no signal when using the digital outputs from the player (and of coarse nothing from the rf)
With the D.D disc, the DDP-1 only had signal when using the RF. I thought the processor would still accept the pcm track from the coax & toslink? And I thought the AC-3 endoing was also on the digital track? Why else would the processor have digital inputs?
So that's why I was wondering how well the SP-99D or Marantz DP-870 handles channel separation on D.S. discs. My D.D. processor does not...