Need some help with AVR 130

[audio_newbie]

Ok, I am a complete A/V beginner at his wits end. I recently purchased a Harman Kardon AVR 130 receiver and an Infinity home theater set to start off with. I already had a Samsung P721M progressive scan DVD player and a Sony 51 HDTV.

My tv has two component inputs and the AVR 130 doesn't have any. I connected the dvd player video to the component input via the proper cable on my tv and connected an optical audio cable from the dvd player to the receiver on the 'dvd optical input' jack.

Here's my problem: When I play a dvd movie, it only plays through dolby digital and I can't get it to play a dts movie in the dts format. I have checked the manual over and over and I'm not getting anywhere. I also confirmed that my dvd player is set for 'bit stream' and 'dts' is set to 'on'. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Unregistered]

The Dolby digital track is the default track that plays if you don't choose otherwise. I have never seen a disc where the DTS track was the default, probably because the dvd spec requires either a dd track or pcm track and other formats like dts are optional and cannot stand alone.

The answer therefore is that you have to go into the dvd disc menu and specifically choose the dts track.

 

[audio_newbie]

Doh! Thanks for the info. That fixed the problem.