7.1 soundtracks and Sony BDP-S550

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Originally Posted by Obiit

At weekend i watched The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian. The review here said it was "a most impressive DTS-HD MA 7.1 lossless surround sound presentation". I found it lacking in surround channels.

I have the S550 connected to my Denon 1804 amp using 5.1 analogues so i was wondering what happened to the other two channels when using analogue. As i cannot find any way of downmixing them in the menu's are they automatically downmixed or just lost?

Cheers

So you have an 8.1 speaker configuration, you're using 5.1 analog connections, but you want to listen to 7.1...am I understanding you? Beyond that little mind scrambler, the two rear surrounds in the 7.1 audio are just dropped off if all you have is a 5.1 output.