Connecting Blu-Ray player to home the...

Dec 26, 2008

-   I have the same Blu-ray player and surround sound system. I've connected the Blu-ray player directly to the TV with HDMI cable and the audio connection is with the digital optical cable to the surround sound receiver. That works, but I've found the surround sound can't seem to decode Dolby True HD or DTS-HD, which seems to be the format of choice on all Blu-Ray discs. All the previews and special features are in normal Dolby or Dolby 2.0 format and play fine, but when the movie starts, the sound disappears. I've been able to get it to work by dumbing down the settings, with the audio on the blu-ray set to PCM instead of Bitstream, but that doesn't produce pure surround sound. Pretty frustrating that Panasonic's own systems don't work together.-   StibDen

Dec 24, 2008

-   Is a secong HDMI cable direct to the TV from the blue ray disc the best way to connect ?

-   Guest