Technical Home Theatre sound issue. HELP!

[supervillainy]

I'm hoping to high heaven that someone in here can give me some help with this problem because no one else seems experienced enough technically to help me at all. I just bought the BDP-s300 Blu-Ray player which doesn't process most high def sound. I have it hooked up to an Onkyo 7.1 THX certified home theatre without HDMI compatibility so I'm running off of a THX Monster optical cable. Because of the lack of HDMI compatibility for this player to run through my system, it is only getting sent a 2ch signal for all PCM soundtracks. Which pretty much means "Hey, you DID buy a Blu-Ray player, but you don't get to hear the main reason you bought it."

My question is, If I were to upgrade to the BDP-s1 player that processes and decodes all sound formats will I still have the same problem or will I be able to get true PCM sound through my optical? Or if not, is there any alternative? Did Sony just screw me into having to spend another $900 on a new HD reciever? Let me know asap please. Thanks all.

-"The Babaganoosh"

[supervillainy]

I'm hoping to high heaven that someone in here can give me some help with this problem because no one else seems experienced enough technically to help me at all. I just bought the BDP-s300 Blu-Ray player which doesn't process most high def sound. I have it hooked up to an Onkyo 7.1 THX certified home theatre without HDMI compatibility so I'm running off of a THX Monster optical cable. Because of the lack of HDMI compatibility for this player to run through my system, it is only getting sent a 2ch signal for all PCM soundtracks. Which pretty much means "Hey, you DID buy a Blu-Ray player, but you don't get to hear the main reason you bought it."

My question is, If I were to upgrade to the BDP-s1 player that processes and decodes all sound formats will I still have the same problem or will I be able to get true PCM sound through my optical? Or if not, is there any alternative? Did Sony just screw me into having to spend another $900 on a new HD reciever? Let me know asap please. Thanks all.

-"The Babaganoosh"

[supervillainy]

I'm hoping to high heaven that someone in here can give me some help with this problem because no one else seems experienced enough technically to help me at all. I just bought the BDP-s300 Blu-Ray player which doesn't process most high def sound. I have it hooked up to an Onkyo 7.1 THX certified home theatre without HDMI compatibility so I'm running off of a THX Monster optical cable. Because of the lack of HDMI compatibility for this player to run through my system, it is only getting sent a 2ch signal for all PCM soundtracks. Which pretty much means "Hey, you DID buy a Blu-Ray player, but you don't get to hear the main reason you bought it."

My question is, If I were to upgrade to the BDP-s1 player that processes and decodes all sound formats will I still have the same problem or will I be able to get true PCM sound through my optical? Or if not, is there any alternative? Did Sony just screw me into having to spend another $900 on a new HD reciever? Let me know asap please. Thanks all.

-"The Babaganoosh"

[CJ P]

Originally Posted by supervillainy

I'm hoping to high heaven that someone in here can give me some help with this problem because no one else seems experienced enough technically to help me at all. I just bought the BDP-s300 Blu-Ray player which doesn't process most high def sound. I have it hooked up to an Onkyo 7.1 THX certified home theatre without HDMI compatibility so I'm running off of a THX Monster optical cable. Because of the lack of HDMI compatibility for this player to run through my system, it is only getting sent a 2ch signal for all PCM soundtracks. Which pretty much means "Hey, you DID buy a Blu-Ray player, but you don't get to hear the main reason you bought it."

My question is, If I were to upgrade to the BDP-s1 player that processes and decodes all sound formats will I still have the same problem or will I be able to get true PCM sound through my optical? Or if not, is there any alternative? Did Sony just screw me into having to spend another $900 on a new HD reciever? Let me know asap please. Thanks all.

-"The Babaganoosh"

Run the 5.1 analog outputs from the player to the receiver. The player will decode the advanced audio formats and send them out via 5.1

[DavePS3]

You should still get 5.1 from that optical cable and the fact you're getting stereo means one or two things are not set correctly. Go into the audio settings of the player and make sure it's not set on stereo than check the Onkyo. It'll have options for running stereo, DD & DTS 5.1 and that needs to be selected correctly.

[jermwhl]

If you have 5.1 analog outs on your reciever, use those. Otherwise optical audio doesn't support uncompressed 5.1 PCM only 2.1...........sorry!

You may be happier upgrading your reciever. Your not the only one in that boat. I'm hoping to upgrade mine by christmas.

[supervillainy]

So the analog meaning composit audio outputs, white and red?

[DavePS3]

Try and switch the player over to Bitstream not LPCM.

[GasCat]

Please stop posting this in every forum.

[CJ P]

The digital ouput doesn't have the bandwidth for multi-channel PCM, only 2 channel as has been mentioned already. Analog outputs means the analog audio outs, not the video outs. Any receiver that is nice enough to be THX certified will have these inputs on it.

[supervillainy]

I just plugged in the analog outs but the only problem now is surround sounds amazing I just have no sound coming from the center channel. What the hell did I do wrong?

[supervillainy]

NM everyone thanks for all the help.