Dolby Digital TRUE HD QUESTION? help please

[peacemaker]

This may sound silly but I am totally new to HOME THEATHER game. I recently purchased a pioneer vsx-9130txh receiver and have a samsung 52inc1080p lcd and the samsung bdp 2550 blue-ray player and love it all.

My questions is when I whatch a movie like IRON MAN the audio playback is in DD TRUE HD, my blueray is set to it as well. The sound is amazing but I'm not sure if what I'm hearing is DD TURE HD beacuse my receiver has PCM showing. Is that beacuse my receiver detects the dd tru dd automatically? Should my receiver have DOLBY DIGITAL TRUE HD IMAGE APPEAR ON MY receiver screen.

Any help would be great. Sorry if this sounds silly just want to know that everything is working out correctly.

Thank you.

 

[jostenmeat]

The obvious culprit is that your player is decoding, and not the receiver. Once the player decodes, there is nothing left to decode for the receiver. Both work fine, but if you have a choice, I recommend the receiver do it.

side note: please disable auto-flagged DRC which happens with TrueHD. It won't usually bother you if you didn't, but Iron Man is a particluarly bad implementation. IIRC, the Pioneer should "remember" the disabled setting, unlike my Onkyo.

 

[dobyblue]

If you are using HDMI to the receiver for audio:

Press MENU
Go to setup, press ENTER
Go to Audio Setup, press ENTER
Set DIGITAL OUTPUT to Bitstream (Audiophile)
Set PCM Down Sampling to OFF
Set Dynamic Compression to OFF

The only time you'll want to change this is when you're going to watch PIP commentary, or secondary audio. Then change DIGITAL OUTPUT to PCM.

 

[GlocksRock]

So long as your player can output the True-HD in bitstream, then you just need to change your settings... but if you don't want to mess with it, you are still getting the True-HD, it's just already been decoded, and the advante to having the player decode it is that you will get the secondary audio stream when viewing picture in picture, as has already been stated. You shouldn't notice any difference, but some have stated that the overall volume level may be a tad higher when the receiver does the decoding.

 

[peacemaker]

Thanks

I adjusted my blue-ray to bitstream the true hd is now working...thanks for the help L