My receiver never displays Dolby HD or DTS HD - Blu-ray Forum

dazkyl · 12-30-2012, 10:13 AM

My receiver is the ONKYO TX-SR308 , and its connected with my WD TV Media Player with HDMI. I normally download bluray movies and when i play them,the receiver only display Dolby D or DTS. Does this mean that im watching movies with ''Non-Hd audio'' ?

BIslander · 12-30-2012, 10:50 AM

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Originally Posted by dazkyl

My receiver is the ONKYO TX-SR308 , and its connected with my WD TV Media Player with HDMI. I normally download bluray movies and when i play them,the receiver only display Dolby D or DTS. Does this mean that im watching movies with ''Non-Hd audio'' ?

Yes. You are hearing lossy audio, not lossless. I am not familiar with the WD TV Player. Does it even support high resolution audio?

dazkyl · 12-30-2012, 10:52 AM

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Originally Posted by BIslander

Yes. You are hearing lossy audio, not lossless. I am not familiar with the WD TV Player. Does it even support high resolution audio?

So this way,im not hearing the best audio possible right ? Im pretty sure it supports high res audio. Setting : Audio output : Digital pass-Through via HDMI only.

BIslander · 12-30-2012, 11:04 AM

From a quick scan of the WD TV manual, it only appears to support Dolby Digital, which is not high resolution audio. You'll need to get a Blu-ray disc player if you want better audio.

dazkyl · 12-30-2012, 11:06 AM

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Originally Posted by BIslander

From a quick scan of the WD TV manual, it only appears to support Dolby Digital, which is not high resolution audio. You'll need to get a Blu-ray disc player if you want better audio.

Then i think i will need to upgrade my wd tv media player to a better one . I got a bluray dvd player connected with my receiver too,but when i plug the external hdd with it,it says unsupported .

BIslander · 12-30-2012, 11:10 AM

Try playing the discs themselves on the Blu-ray player. Most players do not support playback from external drives.

dazkyl · 12-30-2012, 11:10 AM

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Originally Posted by BIslander

From a quick scan of the WD TV manual, it only appears to support Dolby Digital, which is not high resolution audio. You'll need to get a Blu-ray disc player if you want better audio.

Will i notice the difference in audio between my current lossy audio output and the lossless audio of when i upgrade my wdtv media player ?

BIslander · 12-30-2012, 11:13 AM

Hard to say. It depends on the bitrate your current player is sending. But, since you have a disc player, you can find out for yourself by playing Blu-rays on it now.

dazkyl · 12-30-2012, 11:15 AM

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Originally Posted by BIslander

Try playing the discs themselves on the Blu-ray player. Most players do not support playback from external drives.

I switched on my bluray dvd player and i went into the audio settings.

What should i set those?

Dynamic Range Compression : On / Off
Digital Audio Output : Dolby D / Dolby D + / Dolby True HD : PCM / BITSTREAM
DTS/DTS-HD : PCM / BITSTREAM
BD -Video Secondary Audio (If you wish to hear the originali audio,please set BD-VIDEO Seconday Audio to ''Off'' : On / Off
PCM Down Conversion : On / Off
Downmix : Surround encoded / Stereo

BIslander · 12-30-2012, 11:21 AM

Bitstream for both Dolby and DTS. Secondary Audio must be set to Off. The other settings don't matter for these purposes. I am assuming your receiver has DTS-HD and TrueHD decoders. If not, you would set Dolby and DTS to PCM instead of bitstream.

dazkyl · 12-30-2012, 11:24 AM

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Originally Posted by BIslander

Bitstream for both Dolby and DTS. Secondary Audio must be set to Off. The other settings don't matter for these purposes. I am assuming your receiver has DTS-HD and TrueHD decoders. If not, you would set Dolby and DTS to PCM instead of bitstream.

I changed the settings to what you suggestion. What about the Dynamic range compression ? What does this do ?

BIslander · 12-30-2012, 11:27 AM

That's Night Mode. It has no effect on bitstream.

Do you now get TrueHD or DTS Master Audio on your receiver display?

Mr.Terry · 12-30-2012, 02:06 PM

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Originally Posted by dazkyl

Then i think i will need to upgrade my wd tv media player to a better one . I got a bluray dvd player connected with my receiver too,but when i plug the external hdd with it,it says unsupported .

Unsupported may mean that the external HDD needs to be reformatted into another file system .My Blu-ray supports HTFS but my AVR doesn't,it supports FAT.So I have to refomat my 2TB external HDD to FAT if I want to play it through my AVR.
Just wondering if that's your problem,
good luck with that.

dazkyl · 12-30-2012, 02:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Mr.Terry

Unsupported may mean that the external HDD needs to be reformatted into another file system .My Blu-ray supports HTFS but my AVR doesn't,it supports FAT.So I have to refomat my 2TB external HDD to FAT if I want to play it through my AVR.
Just wondering if that's your problem,
good luck with that.

My avr does not support external HDD. I plug it into the wd media player

BIslander · 12-30-2012, 03:22 PM

Is it working?

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Do you now get TrueHD or DTS Master Audio on your receiver display?

pentatonic · 12-30-2012, 03:30 PM

You mention you don't get lossless audio on downloaded movies but I've never heard of legal hi res audio movie downloads. If you're looking for help playing illegal downloads, you should look elsewhere as this site doesn't look nicely on that. (if not apologies for having misunderstood).

BIslander · 12-30-2012, 03:52 PM

Judging by yet another thread you have opened at AVS, I gather you have not actually played a disc yet on your Blu-ray player. Rather, you are reformatting your drive in hopes that you can play downloaded movies with lossless audio through the BD player instead of the WD TV. It also suggests that you don't own the discs themselves. I'm with pentatonic about not providing assistance for playing illegal downloads.

crackinhedz · 12-30-2012, 06:05 PM

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Originally Posted by dazkyl

I normally download bluray movies

This discussion can be held on numerous other websites, not tolerated here.

12-30-2012, 10:13 AM	#1
dazkyl Active Member Member since:Dec 2012 Location:Santa Lucia, Malta	My receiver never displays Dolby HD or DTS HD My receiver is the ONKYO TX-SR308 , and its connected with my WD TV Media Player with HDMI. I normally download bluray movies and when i play them,the receiver only display Dolby D or DTS. Does this mean that im watching movies with ''Non-Hd audio'' ?

12-30-2012, 11:13 AM	#8
BIslander Blu-ray Samurai Member since:Sep 2008 Location:Bainbridge Island, WA	Hard to say. It depends on the bitrate your current player is sending. But, since you have a disc player, you can find out for yourself by playing Blu-rays on it now. Last edited by BIslander; 12-30-2012 at 11:16 AM.

12-30-2012, 11:04 AM	#4
BIslander Blu-ray Samurai Member since:Sep 2008 Location:Bainbridge Island, WA	From a quick scan of the WD TV manual, it only appears to support Dolby Digital, which is not high resolution audio. You'll need to get a Blu-ray disc player if you want better audio.

12-30-2012, 11:10 AM	#6
BIslander Blu-ray Samurai Member since:Sep 2008 Location:Bainbridge Island, WA	Try playing the discs themselves on the Blu-ray player. Most players do not support playback from external drives.

12-30-2012, 11:21 AM	#10
BIslander Blu-ray Samurai Member since:Sep 2008 Location:Bainbridge Island, WA	Bitstream for both Dolby and DTS. Secondary Audio must be set to Off. The other settings don't matter for these purposes. I am assuming your receiver has DTS-HD and TrueHD decoders. If not, you would set Dolby and DTS to PCM instead of bitstream.

12-30-2012, 11:27 AM	#12
BIslander Blu-ray Samurai Member since:Sep 2008 Location:Bainbridge Island, WA	That's Night Mode. It has no effect on bitstream. Do you now get TrueHD or DTS Master Audio on your receiver display?

12-30-2012, 03:30 PM	#16
pentatonic Blu-ray Ninja Top contributor Member since:Jan 2009 Location:Montreal, Canada Blu-ray collection:570 DVD collection:1 Blu-ray reviews: 6 Trading Score:158	You mention you don't get lossless audio on downloaded movies but I've never heard of legal hi res audio movie downloads. If you're looking for help playing illegal downloads, you should look elsewhere as this site doesn't look nicely on that. (if not apologies for having misunderstood).

12-30-2012, 03:52 PM	#17
BIslander Blu-ray Samurai Member since:Sep 2008 Location:Bainbridge Island, WA	Judging by yet another thread you have opened at AVS, I gather you have not actually played a disc yet on your Blu-ray player. Rather, you are reformatting your drive in hopes that you can play downloaded movies with lossless audio through the BD player instead of the WD TV. It also suggests that you don't own the discs themselves. I'm with pentatonic about not providing assistance for playing illegal downloads.

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