Problem with Beowulf

[bigdaddyhorse]

So I just returned one copy of this and am still having the same issue.
I get nothing but bass for sound through my receiver. Everything is hooked up right, I watch at least a movie a day and haven't had any other issues (except the Dredd fubar discs I expected), but no matter what I change the input settings to on the player, I only get bass on the US audio (the other 2 tracks work fine). Even weirder, the sound comes through my crappy TV speakers fine. WTF is happening? I want to watch this but 2-channel TV speakers are a waste of my hearing, why won't it sound right?
I have a Sony BD-S370 player and a Denon AVR-589 receiver if that maters. Thanks in advance for any potential help. Gonna try and hook up the Magnovox player to see if that helps, but I doubt it will.

WTF squared? It's fine through the Magnavox 530. Irritating at best (running up and down stairs, unhooking and re-hooking), but at least I can hook that up to the HD set and receiver. Why no good on the Sony 370 though, which is a far faster (load times about half) and better player overall?

[slimdude]

Originally Posted by bigdaddyhorse

So I just returned one copy of this and am still having the same issue.
I get nothing but bass for sound through my receiver. Everything is hooked up right, I watch at least a movie a day and haven't had any other issues (except the Dredd fubar discs I expected), but no matter what I change the input settings to on the player, I only get bass on the US audio (the other 2 tracks work fine). Even weirder, the sound comes through my crappy TV speakers fine. WTF is happening? I want to watch this but 2-channel TV speakers are a waste of my hearing, why won't it sound right?
I have a Sony BD-S370 player and a Denon AVR-589 receiver if that maters. Thanks in advance for any potential help. Gonna try and hook up the Magnovox player to see if that helps, but I doubt it will.

WTF squared? It's fine through the Magnavox 530. Irritating at best (running up and down stairs, unhooking and re-hooking), but at least I can hook that up to the HD set and receiver. Why no good on the Sony 370 though, which is a far faster (load times about half) and better player overall?

There is nothing wrong with the disc, if you've exchanged it twice. Apparently there is something going with audio connections on your Sony BD player! The disc disc itself is not the source of your problem. The audio on my copy played, and sounded perfect without a hitch. Are you sure you're selecting the Dolby TrueHD soundtrack from the audio menu on the disc on the Sony? Check the cable connections on the Sony, maybe somehow, they've became loose, or disconnect completely from the inputs.

[bigdaddyhorse]

Originally Posted by slimdude

There is nothing wrong with the disc, if you've exchanged it twice. Apparently there is something going with audio connections on your Sony BD player! The disc disc itself is not the source of your problem. The audio on my copy played, and sounded perfect without a hitch. Are you sure you're selecting the Dolby TrueHD soundtrack from the audio menu on the disc on the Sony? Check the cable connections on the Sony, maybe somehow, they've became loose, or disconnect completely from the inputs.

It was all hooked up right, just a co-ax cable for the digital audio and no other disc has given me any problem. Then I plug the exact same co-ax into the other player, and it's fine without ever disconnecting from the receiver. Playing with the settings on the Sony changed nothing (I even tried down-mixing the audio to see if that helped), yet the Spanish and French tracks play fine on either player.

I only took back one copy and will settle for this irritating fix for now. Plus the copy I took back looked used even though it was new. The front cover looked like it got wet at some point. That was the only copy they had 2 weeks ago, this week they only had the one I exchanged it for. I'm now sure it is the players problem, just not sure why as hundreds of other discs (maybe 1000 counting dvds) I've watched on it have had no issue ever (except Dredd).

[bigdaddyhorse]

So there was no disc or player problem after all, although it makes even less sense now.
Today I notice there's not enough lights lit on my receiver. There's a button for the speakers that got accidentally pressed to just use speakers A. When I click it to use A and B, all is fine through both players, full sound.

What makes no sense is why did I get all speakers through A on one player but not the other? The single speaker light was on the whole time (probably bumped it a day or 2 ago) so it seems that using the same cord from the receiver to each player would net the same result as I didn't change anything else (both are set to digital direct on the vcr/dvd channel, both players set to stream out). Also this has happened in the past but usually I hear it right away. Most times the subwoofer goes away when only A speakers are on, this disc was only bass. Because other discs in the last couple days sounded fine I forgot to check this one thing yesterday.

[slimdude]

Glad you've resolved the problem. You must've pressed the buttons by accident, without realizing it.

[rubystone356]

I just finished watching Beowulf tonight. I had no problems with it using my Oppo 93 player.

Jacob