How does DVD player digital surround decoding affect my reciever surround sound?
P Willy
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buying a new dvd player today. I noticed that you can get them with and without varios forms of digital surround decoding. since I have a nice digital surround reciever, I was wondering how the dvd's decoding affects my reciever's decoding?
should I be concerned? should I just get one that doesn't do decoding since my reciever should handle it better?
Anonymous
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I would opt for the dvd player that only has DD and DTS out. Take advantage of your nice receivers decoders, speaker level, distance, delay controls. After all thats what you bought it for. Also you may want a dvd player with dvd audio and sacd if your receiver has 6 channel analog inputs
Derek
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Unless you buy a DVD player that plays DVD-A or SACD AND your receiver has 6-channel analog in I would NOT bother with the DVD players that do thier own decoding. Additional proccessing done by your receiver is best handled in the digital domain and you skip a D/A-A/D step.