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New member Username: SiteforlifePost Number: 1 Registered: Dec-08 | I purchased a PS3 instead of a blue ray player since it seemed to provide more options. I have connected with a digital optical cable to a Sony Receiver DE885, and to my HDTV with HDMI. I select digital audio ouput and this works fine on my 5.1 speaker set up with regular DVDs but not with Blue Ray discs. The sound keeps cutting out - sort of seems that the receiver cannot handle the signal, although this is not all the time. I have tried changing the digital optical cable, but the problem remained. What might be the problem? |
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Silver Member Username: JrbayLivonia [Detroit area], Michigan USA Post Number: 556 Registered: Feb-08 | I would suspect the discs or the player long before the cables/connectors. How does it sound from the TV speakers? |
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New member Username: SiteforlifePost Number: 3 Registered: Dec-08 | Thanks. I connected up a different PS3 - same problem. The sound break up, which is brief but annoying, has happened on 2 rental blue rays and one new out of the box. I think it is when there is much action noise and/or music, not when there is only conversation. TV speakers are OK. There is no problem with simple 2 channel stereo through the receiver either. Regular DVD's do not seem to cause any problem on the 5.1. |
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Silver Member Username: JrbayLivonia [Detroit area], Michigan USA Post Number: 557 Registered: Feb-08 | OK THIS MAKES IT OFFICIAL - I will do my BEST to bad mouth Sony products every chance I get: http://www.kb.sony.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc &externalId=C549452&sliceId=1&docTypeID=DT_KNOWLEDGEARTICLES_1_1&dialogID=473954 39&stateId=0%200%2047401821 The bums actually say you can't do what you are trying to do and must use analog inputs to play THEIR OWN #$^%$^&%$ CREATION BLU-RAY!!! |
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New member Username: SiteforlifePost Number: 4 Registered: Dec-08 | Thanks for reponses. So this problem is built into BD technology - I wonder if there was the same deficiency in HD? I suppose this probelm will occur with any blu ray player, that is to say none are able to modify the audio output for older receivers. And I also suppose all "older" receivers have the same problem, not just Sony. I put quotation marks around older} since redundancy at 6 yrs seems ridiculous, but reading more now on all the options out there perhaps not surprising. Customer suffers in the end. |
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Silver Member Username: JrbayLivonia [Detroit area], Michigan USA Post Number: 559 Registered: Feb-08 | Since I have just heard of this problem my assumption would be that it is just a Sony issue but I could be wrong. Sony just seems to have a strange way of being completely different than the rest of the industry and usually on the not so good side. |