help needed guys. multi chanel outputs

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i have reectly brought a new panasonic dmp bd 85 on your exelent review. the problem is i only have and older onkyo 595 reciever. i understood that you could get hd audio out of the pany by using the analoge out puts. my reciever has a 5.1 analoge input but dose not respond. can you give me a step by step of what to do please. the pany manual is not very helpful. it also takls about a 5.1 + 2ch down mix what is this. and should i still have a coaxial lead connected for normal dd and dts for whatching dvds. oh and by the way any news of iplayer on the viera cast!!

hope someone can help because i just spen 80 pounds on two extra hdmi cables that wil rech my tv lol

 

[ear]

think you need to select external on the onkyo

 

[Anonymous]

external? can you expand please.

 

[Anonymous]

It would help if you could state what options and settings you have selected on the Panny and the Onkyo.

I do know that on the Onkyo you need to select 'Multi ch' - probably a button on the front of the amp itself.

I'm not sure about the Panny but there must be an audio setting where you can choose from either hdmi or coax/optical or analogue and therefore choose the latter.

You would also need to set the Panny to decode the dolby digital / dts so they become (L)PCM and NOT bitstream.

 

[Anonymous]

I've had a quick look at the panny manual and you do need to select the (2ch downmix)+5.1channel option in the analogue audio output section; you must also disable the hdmi audio out by setting it to off otherwise the analogue signal may not work properly.

The onkyo should have a setting in the menu to select audio via hdmi or coax or analogue. I think onkyo talk about assigning an audio input signal to each input e.g. select DVD and assign analogue input as its audio.

 

[Anonymous]

thanks buddy ill give it try and let you know how i get on