Denon 1930 DVD / DVD-A hybrid disk

[danielmc1]

Hi there
I used to have a Toshiba e220 and played REM's Automatic for the people album on their hybrid DVD / DVD-A disk. Because this player didn't have DVD-A capabilities, it would obviously just play the DVD part of the disk, where I could listen to the album in 5.1 Dolby Digital or DTS which sounded great.

I now have the Denon 1930 player, which DOES have DVD-A capabilities and it plays the 48k 2.1 DVD-A part of the disk very well. HOWEVER, I can't get it to play the multi channel DVD part anymore. The 1930 just defalts to DVD-A with no choice in the matter, and only displays the DVD-A option menu on the disk, so I can no longer access the 5.1 Dolby or DTS soundtracks!

Help anyone??!

Dan

[KMO]

DVD-Audio discs really should let you access everything on the DVD-Video zone from the DVD-Audio zone. Smacked bottom for the disc authors there.

The Beatles' "Love" suffers from the same problem.

Anyway, assuming it's like the 2930, if you press SETUP then go into "Other settings", there's a "player mode" option that you can use to tell it to play the DVD-Video zone rather than DVD-Audio.

However, you really should get your connections sorted out. DVD-Audio 5.1 will be superior to DD/DTS. With the 1930, you'll have to use HDMI or 6-way analogue connections to convey multichannel DVD-Audio.

[danielmc1]

Ah ha! Thanks for that - I didn't think to look in the 'other' section.

So my digital coaxial connection doesn't support the full 5.1 DVD-A mix then? I wondered why it was only giving 2.1 channels - I assumed that was just the way they made the disk!

I only have an HDMI connection to the TV and my receiver doesn't take HDMI, so I guess that means I need SIX analogue connections to the direct input of my receiver for DVD-A? Or can I use a combination of coaxial and analogue inputs?? Maybe not....

[KMO]

Yes, you need six analogue connections to the receiver's direct/multichannel input. Conventional coax/optical digital connections can only carry 2-channel audio, or a Dolby/DTS/MPEG bitstream, not full uncompressed 5.1-channel audio. The player will be downmixing the audio to 2-channel to send it over the coax. At least that's better than Super Audio CD, where you won't get anything at all over the coax.

A drawback to using an analogue connection is that the receiver doesn't process that input, so you'll need to configure bass management settings - speaker size and distance - in the player. Players with multichannel outputs have their own speaker level, size and distance settings for them.

[danielmc1]

Oh yea I noticed that - test tone and level control on the DVD player - never seen that before...

Thanks for the help!

Dan