Panasonic DMP-BD30 Help

[rkln03]

Hello, I have my BD30 hooked up to my Onkyo 606 through HDMI... I currently just have the reciever and blu ray player hooked up to a couple speakers and no TV as I have not moved yet and am just testing my equipment I bought out in my bedroom of my parents house before I move out.

Since I dont have a TV hooked up, I have no display which makes this next part tricky. I am not getting the DTS-HD or TruHD to show on my 606 most likely because the audio settings on the blu ray player are not set up right (meaning I need to switch it to bitstream or whatever it needs to decode the audio signal on the 606). Can anyone that has a BD30 list the remote control buttons and sequence of buttons that I need to push in a list format provide it for me since i dont have a TV hooked up, I dont know where I am in the menu when I am pushing the buttons on the BD30s remote.

Any help would be appreciated!

Thank you.

[Schrute Farms]

Connect it to any monitor in the meantime. The BD30 can output thru component cables so you can make sure it is bitstreaming the out put. Plus I think it ONLY bitstreams the HD audio codecs, so it can't internally decode them anyway. Good luck!

[AlaskaDon]

Yup, that's the answer. You need to hook it up to a display someplace, and set it up to bitstream the advanced audio codecs. Your Onkyo will do the decoding.

Without setting it up to bitstream all you will get is the lossy core.

Edit: Sorry, I see that you already know this. Not sure if it's going to work out hoping that you hit all the right buttons. I seem to remember quite a few menus to navigate thru, but I'll take a look and post back if it's simple. Why bother doing this though? Seems like a lot of trouble to light up an indicator on a receiver display.

[rkln03]

I want to do it because I have never heard lossless audio before, and I wanted to try it out before the 6-12 months I move and have access to a TV. There is no way I can connect it to a monitor, I have no monitor, and I live with my parents and the only monitors in the house are a 65" DLP Rear Projection TV that is sitting in a built-in $8000 entertainment center that I cant access the back to plug cables into and the theater room which has a projector mounted on the ceiling that I cant access either because its all wired up for the theater components which are located in another room of the house so they arent seen while in the theater.


Well, the only way I can see doing this is maybe unplugging the regular DVD player hooked up to the 65" TV since its connected through component, hook the BD30 up to that and go through the menu on that to set to bitsteam, the only questions is...When I unplug the BD30 after setting it up for bitsteam and take it downstairs and plug it into my 606, will the BD30 remember the bitstream settings that I set for it when I had it connected upstairs to the 65"? Also, without having a TV connected down here, how will I be able to select the audio track to be the lossless audio track if the Blu Ray disc has multiple tracks (DD, DTS, TruHD, etc)???


If anyone can please post the instructions/steps to get the bitstream audio so I can hear the lossless quality on my 606 and speakers, I would really appreciate it.

Thank you.

[rkln03]

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[krisjan]

Originally Posted by rkln03

I want to do it because I have never heard lossless audio before, and I wanted to try it out before the 6-12 months I move and have access to a TV. There is no way I can connect it to a monitor, I have no monitor, and I live with my parents and the only monitors in the house are a 65" DLP Rear Projection TV that is sitting in a built-in $8000 entertainment center that I cant access the back to plug cables into and the theater room which has a projector mounted on the ceiling that I cant access either because its all wired up for the theater components which are located in another room of the house so they arent seen while in the theater.


Well, the only way I can see doing this is maybe unplugging the regular DVD player hooked up to the 65" TV since its connected through component, hook the BD30 up to that and go through the menu on that to set to bitsteam, the only questions is...When I unplug the BD30 after setting it up for bitsteam and take it downstairs and plug it into my 606, will the BD30 remember the bitstream settings that I set for it when I had it connected upstairs to the 65"? Also, without having a TV connected down here, how will I be able to select the audio track to be the lossless audio track if the Blu Ray disc has multiple tracks (DD, DTS, TruHD, etc)???


If anyone can please post the instructions/steps to get the bitstream audio so I can hear the lossless quality on my 606 and speakers, I would really appreciate it.

Thank you.

Sorry, but you will have to be connected to a video monitor to select the hi-rez audio track on a BD. Some BD's default to the hi-rez track but others don't.

[gearyt]

Isn't there a set of inputs behind the "secret" panel on the front of the display ??

[rkln03]

There might be a set of inputs behind that panel, I am not sure if they are component or not though. I will take a look. Its one of those Diamond Series Mitsubishi DLP TVs, so I will check it out and see, if not, I can just unplug the component cables from the back of the DVD player thats there now and plug my player in and do what I need to do and then plug the cables back in when I am done

[ryoohki]

Why did you bought it right now?, it's likely that the 'BD40 or Whatever the name that it will have' be annonced at CEDIA or after and be released in Dec 2008 to replace the BD30 (that will have 1 years old buy then..). It would most likely be cheaper and offer full 2.0 profile..

[rghuxley]

I know that you can go into the BD30 and actually set DTS-MA and TrueHD to be bitstreamed and leave everything else at PCM. This allows you to not have to continuously go back and forth and changing that out. The only time I have had to set it back to PCM is when I am watching the PIP on THE MUMMY and TMR. Other than that I have not had to keep changing it back and forth and it displays on my Onkyo 605 the DTS-MA or TrueHD.

[rkln03]

Originally Posted by ryoohki

Why did you bought it right now?, it's likely that the 'BD40 or Whatever the name that it will have' be annonced at CEDIA or after and be released in Dec 2008 to replace the BD30 (that will have 1 years old buy then..). It would most likely be cheaper and offer full 2.0 profile..

I bought it about three months ago because I thought I would be ready to move into the house I planned on moving into on August 1st, but the renovations that are being done to it are not going as fast as I hoped since its my girlfriend's dad's doing all the work himself and he's 61 years old and works 3 days a week at his other job, he doesnt have the time or money to complete the house remodel in as quickly of a time manner I projected when we asked if we could move into his vacant house back in March. We might even end up looking for an apartment or something else if its going to be longer than 6 months from now. I am not buying anything else though until I know for sure of a move in date. Anyway, since i bought it all now, I thought I might as well get some enjoyment out of it until I actually move instead of having it all sit in the box in my closet.

[rkln03]

Originally Posted by rghuxley

I know that you can go into the BD30 and actually set DTS-MA and TrueHD to be bitstreamed and leave everything else at PCM. This allows you to not have to continuously go back and forth and changing that out. The only time I have had to set it back to PCM is when I am watching the PIP on THE MUMMY and TMR. Other than that I have not had to keep changing it back and forth and it displays on my Onkyo 605 the DTS-MA or TrueHD.

If I take the BD30 upstairs and do this to the TV up there and then unplug it and take it downstairs to my room and hook it up, will the settings I changed upstairs remain intact when I plug it back in downstairs??? This would be excellent if it remembers that

[rkln03]

I figured it out.. By hitting the "Audio" button on the BD30's remote, it will cycle through the different audio tracks and after hitting that button twice, I was able to see "DTS-MSTR" on my 606's screen.

Thank you for all your guys help

[rghuxley]

Originally Posted by rkln03

If I take the BD30 upstairs and do this to the TV up there and then unplug it and take it downstairs to my room and hook it up, will the settings I changed upstairs remain intact when I plug it back in downstairs??? This would be excellent if it remembers that

That's a good question. I dont know, but it looks like you got it figured out now. BTW, you will LOVE the lossless sound. I didn't really know what to expect, but my LORD is it beautiful!!!!!!!

[rkln03]

The lossless audio sounds pretty good. I currently have it set up with just the two front speakers, the center channel and the sub. I am running B&W 601's in the front, a B&W center channel and a NHT powered subwoofer with my Onkyo 606. I was pretty impressed with the regular lossy audio quality of the speakers, should I really be expecting the lossless to sound better, or do I need to hook up my rear channels as well to experience it? I just hooked this all up to demo it temorarily until I move so I didnt go through all the trouble of hooking up the rear channels

[run47725]

When I setup my BD30, I had to hit Stop+Play to default it to 480p, then manually set the video resolution to 1080i. (For some reason, the handshaking wasn't working somewhere from my BD30 to Onkyo 605 to Sanyo Z2). I then set the audio outputs to bitstream and turned off secondary audio, but I still only get Dolby or DTS no matter what the audio track is on the disc. The BD30 manual says if you use the Stop+Play routine, all audio defaults to Dolby or DTS even when bitstream is selected. To fix this, it says to reset the player to its factory settings, but when I do this, of course, I get no video and have to use Stop+Play again. Then I am back to square one.

Has anyone encountered this same scenario and found a way around it?