Toshiba SD-6915 - DVDAudio Help!

[kaos]

While not being the most user friendly player in the world, it gets the job done... except as of late.

When I first purchased the player a week ago I hooked it up to the receiver through the 5.1 analog out and enjoyed SACD/DVDAudio. Everything worked great but then I rearranged the room over the past week and hooked everything back up and now I am unable to select advanced resolution tracks on DVDAudio discs. The audio defaults to Dolby Digital every time! One disc even said I needed a player that supports DVDAudio to play the disc. But it IS a DVDAudio player! I've checked my connections several times and everything is connected through analog like it should be. I've checked the menus and tried various configurations and still nothing works. SACD still works fine in both stereo and multi-channel modes.

Does anyone know what the problem may be? I really want to listen to DVDAudio again.

Maybe the player is defective all of the sudden?

 

[DISCMAN]

some players need to be switched to default to a DVD-A instead of DVD-V.
some receivers need to be switched to default to the analogue connections instead of the digital.
I would assume your problem is with one of these 2 areas. If you unplugged these units from the wall outlet it may have reset them.

 

[kaos]

How can I go about switching my player to default to DVD-A instead of DVD-V?

I will double check my receiver's analog default and post back results. Thanks for the advice though!

 

[racquetman]

I doubt your receiver would default to the 5.1 analog outputs when you put in a DVD-audio. Make sure the receiver is set to the 5.1 analog output. Even if the DVD player doesn't default to DVD-audio, you should still be able to go into the disc menu when it is playing and select the advanced resolution audio.

There is a firmware upgrade for your dvd player (under notices):

http://www.tacp.toshiba.com/dvd/product.asp?model=sd-6915

This shouldn't be the problem because it worked before, but who knows for sure.

 

[kaos]

The problem is that I can't actually select the Advanced Resolution tracks now. I've been testing it with the new Seal's Greatest Hits DVD-Audio disc and the audio menu only offers 5.1 Dolby Digital Surround and 2.0 Dolby Stereo whereas it was Advanced Resolution Surround and Advanced Resolution Stereo before. My serial number doesn't fall in to those needed for the upgrade but I may end up calling them anyways. Is there anywhere I can just download the upgrade, burn it and fix it from the net?

 

[racquetman]

try this

Try changing the digital output setting in the DVD player to PCM if it is set to bitstream.

 

[kaos]

Failed once again.

 

[racquetman]

Seal disc

I have the Seal greatest hits disc. What does it say under audio setup on the main menu? It should give you the choice of either advanced resolution surround or advanced resolution stereo. Are you saying that it no longer says this? Or does it say this, but when you click on one of them it doesn't work?

I looked through the owner's manual for your player online, but it is sparse with information. I would disconnect your digital connection (coax or toslink, whatever you have) and take that out as an option. Then the player's only option is to send audio through the analog outputs. If your DVD player also decodes DD and DTS then this might not accomplish anything as it will simply do the DD decoding itself. Go through the different audio options in the DVD player and try different combinations.

 

[kaos]

The options are no longer available on the audio menu. Only the Dolby tracks. The player itself has a built in Dolby decoder, though. I've tried different configurations in the setup menu and will continue to do so until something works. I'm just so stumped as to why the tracks would be replaced by Dolby trakcs in the disc menu. How could that even happen?! They should atleast remain there no matter what, right?

 

[kaos]

I'm just going to return the player and purchase the Yamaha DVD-C750. This Toshiba player is just rediculously bad and not user friendly. I hate having to look at the remote everytime I do something because of it's odd layout. Thanks for everything guys!

 

[rgriffin25]

some players need to be switched to default to a DVD-A instead of DVD-V.
If you unplugged these units from the wall outlet it may have reset them.

This answer should solve your problem. If its not too late.
Go into the set-up menu to find these settings. If it is in DVD-Video mode it will default to the DD section not the DVD-A.

 

[kaos]

Where exactly can I switch from DVD-Video to DVD-Audio mode? I don't see that option anywhere in the menu.

 

[MDS]

Where exactly can I switch from DVD-Video to DVD-Audio mode? I don't see that option anywhere in the menu.

Which menu? If there is such an option it will be in the dvd player menu, not the disc menu. I bet the problem is actually option 2 from alandamp's prior post - the receiver is defaulting to the digital input and not the 5.1 analog input.

 

[kaos]

I'm pretty excited to be getting this new Yamaha player. It's fairly cheap and has received great reviews from the holics themselves. Not to mention, it has a region free code that can easily be done with the remote AND it plays DivX. Not much more I could ask for except an HDMI out maybe.

But I've read the crossover is set pretty high at 120 instead of something more reasonable like 100 or even 80. But is the crossover only set that high if I set the speakers to small? What if I change them to large? Would that lower the crossover? Anybody know anything about this for that player?

 

[racquetman]

If you set 'em to large, then there is no crossover. Your speakers receive the full signal (all frequencies).

 

[kaos]

I was told that the crossover issue is only when playing DVD-A and SACD. Is this true? I got the player, by the way, and am overwhelmed by it's performance. It even does great when playing PAL formated discs.

 

[racquetman]

This is called bass management. If you have your receiver decoding DD and DTS (i.e. have a coax or toslink digital connection between your player and receiver) then, yes, this will only apply to DVD-audio and SACD. Some players do this (bass management) better than others and you will probably see a lot of posts in the forum complaining about bass management, especially for SACD where it is rarely implemented to anyone's satisfaction.

An example of poor bass management is your player only giving you one crossover option at 120 hz. However, it probably isn't that big of a deal and you probably aren't missing much.

Sounds like you are happy with your player, so that is all that matters. If you have a test disc of some sort you could do a frequency sweep and see if you are missing out on some frequencies by only having the one crossover option.

Enjoy!!

 

[kaos]

Yeah, tell me about it. It took me a year and a half before I was finally satisfied with my sub sounding good with the rest of the system. I'm pretty sure I'm missing out on some freqs if the crossover is that high but regardless, the audio is sounding deeper and tighter than ever before. Just what I wanted.

 

[kaos]

On a side note, the Yamaha 750 plays every DVD blank media format except dual layer. And to eject the tray using the remote you must hold down the Stop button just like the Philips 642 player. The remotes are almost exactly alike.