Philips DVDR75/691 - DTS Passthrough

[skateni]

Bought this puppy and so far have been satisfied with it. When thru the manuals and it's mentioned in the manual something about DTS pass thru. Does that mean I need a separate DTS decoder to get DTS out of my receiver ? I played a DTS DVD on it and I get clicks and pops out of my Denon AVR3802 Receiver. There is no DTS logo on the unit but there is on the manual.

[nezza_42]

As no one else has picked up on this, I'll have a go - though I'm no expert....


I beilieve the "pass through" means that any DVD with DTS encoding on it will be delivered to an external DTS Decoder (eg an amp, reciever or seperate pre-amp decoder) with all the information intact. The DVD player does not decode the signals itself.

I have another DVD player that does decode DTS, and that has 6 discrete outputs, one for each channel, that must then be connected to amplifiers or active speakers.

If you connect a DTS decoding amp to your player, it should, I believe, work OK. If your amp only supports Dolby Pro-Logic (as my old Yamaha amp does) you will still get Pro-Logic suround, but no DTS.

Hope this helps

Nezza

[skateni]

Thanks for your reply. I have a Pioneer DVD player as well that's "retired" and it does DTS as well though it doesn't have the 5 discrete outputs. I use the optical link to connect to my receiver and it does decode it properly so not sure the decoding is done by the player or my receiver but not the philips though and the Denon AVR3802 does do DTS.

[donpedro]

If it has 5-outputs for speakers, this is transaltion...

"DTS Passthrough" means that you can't listen from those 5-speker outputs on that unit. It can not decode DTS but it can (I guess) Dolby Digital. It will send DTS signal through digital output without problem to your receiver where it will be decoded and sent to speakers.