Yamaha RX-V1065 trouble watching/hearing BLURAY

[Max_the_drive]

I finally bought a new AV receiver, a Yamaha RX-V1065, and it seems pretty good, except when we watch Blu ray videos on our Panasonic Bluray/DVD of past Dexter seasons, we just get the music track playing, no vocal track. If I plug in headphones, the unit does the correct thing and down mixes. If I do something kind of strange, I hit fast forward, the disc goes ahead and plays the whole audio and the unit says PCM. ( If I hit fast forward again it does ff.) Nowhere in the manual does it talk about PCM, which I thought was a digital standard, not a setting.

Now we only have a stereo set up--the rest of the sound will come later--but I thought the unit automatically detected speakers and down mixed to stereo.
I put my Dark Knight BluRay in and it played all the tracks.

I can always turn the thing off and it goes thru to the Plasma TV and plays the entire track on the TVs speakers, but who wants that?



Any body have any suggestions?

Oh, and I realize this unit is not the great stuff, but its for a small space and cost $371 total, new.

 

[LAB3]

I finally bought a new AV receiver, a Yamaha RX-V1065, and it seems pretty good, except when we watch Blu ray videos on our Panasonic Bluray/DVD of past Dexter seasons, we just get the music track playing, no vocal track. If I plug in headphones, the unit does the correct thing and down mixes. If I do something kind of strange, I hit fast forward, the disc goes ahead and plays the whole audio and the unit says PCM. ( If I hit fast forward again it does ff.) Nowhere in the manual does it talk about PCM, which I thought was a digital standard, not a setting.

Now we only have a stereo set up--the rest of the sound will come later--but I thought the unit automatically detected speakers and down mixed to stereo.
I put my Dark Knight BluRay in and it played all the tracks.

I can always turn the thing off and it goes thru to the Plasma TV and plays the entire track on the TVs speakers, but who wants that?



Any body have any suggestions?

Oh, and I realize this unit is not the great stuff, but its for a small space and cost $371 total, new.

HDMI from Bluray to Yamaha.. go to Bluray setting and select Bitstreaming audiophile. Try this sometimes had to reset my Yamaha after watching cable then a DVD and then a Bluray. When I turned off the Yamaha(reset it) it played the Bluray just fine. I have noticed some Bluray movies do not have very much signal strenght going to all 7 channels. Bluray THX I have found lacking on hearing all speakers. But this could just be that Bluray as some are not recorded as good as others in HD on rear or side speakers. Never had a problem with center speaker.