while the article is interesting and sad, I can't help but point out something. he is claiming she had no dialog as the center channel was not properly configured. he then states the audio was hooked up with analog left and right only. it both were true, the dialog would have come through the left and right speakers no matter what. I believe...
Actually most DVD players (including Diane's) output a mixed down Dolby Pro Logic-encoded stereo track over the 2-channel analog audio outputs. When the receiver gets this matrix-encoded soundtrack, it goes into DPL decoding mode and steers any information present in both channels to the center channel and it steers the encoded surround information to the rear speakers. It's not a discrete surround mix, but it is a form of surround sound, albeit degraded. Because of this she was getting *some* dialog "leaking" into the left and right speakers but at an extremely low level. If they had connected the DVD player properly (via the fiberoptic or coax digital connection), then the dialog would have been completely absent and the problem would have been even more evident.
Not exactly. Not connecting the center channel doesn't mean the center channel stream will automatically divert to the left and right speakers. You would have to manually disable the center channel in the AV reciever.
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while the article is interesting and sad, I can't help but point out something. he is claiming she had no dialog as the center channel was not properly configured. he then states the audio was hooked up with analog left and right only. it both were true, the dialog would have come through the left and right speakers no matter what. I believe...
Actually most DVD players (including Diane's) output a mixed down Dolby Pro Logic-encoded stereo track over the 2-channel analog audio outputs. When the receiver gets this matrix-encoded soundtrack, it goes into DPL decoding mode and steers any information present in both channels to the center channel and it steers the encoded surround information to the rear speakers. It's not a discrete surround mix, but it is a form of surround sound, albeit degraded. Because of this she was getting *some* dialog "leaking" into the left and right speakers but at an extremely low level. If they had connected the DVD player properly (via the fiberoptic or coax digital connection), then the dialog would have been completely absent and the problem would have been even more evident.
Not exactly. Not connecting the center channel doesn't mean the center channel stream will automatically divert to the left and right speakers. You would have to manually disable the center channel in the AV reciever.
i think it was the surrounds that wee swapped left/right.