Dear All Hope someone can help. I purchased my first blu ray disc a few days ago (the dark knight), put it my sony blu ray player, press the remote for my pioneer amp a pioneer VSX-920 and i had expected that on the LED display a "Dolby HD or true HD" display would come up, instead teh words "PCM" light up. ive looked at the manual and it doesnt explain what this means. Is this fine? Also, the dark Knight starts off full screen ( I assmume this is the IMAX aspect ratio then it goes to letter box and if youre conscious of this it becomes annoying when you watch the movie. Is there anyway I can watch the movie not in letter box ratio? Any advice would be appreciated. Cheers
PCM indication on pioneer amp
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john1000000boy
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Have you set the audio to come over hdmi from player to amp. You may have to go into the settup menus and assign this. Not sure if your remote has a sig sel button try this for assigning audio to inputs
Frank Harvey
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This disc defaults to Dolby Digital if you just press play or have auto play enabled. You'll have to bring up the pop up menu and change the audio to True HD. make sure your Sont player's digital output is set to bitstream, not PCM.
Guys thanks for the input. So ill have to bring up a menu on the screen using the blu ray remote to change the setting? Am I right?
The_Lhc
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Er, yes, it's the blu-ray player decoding the soundtrack to PCM, so you need to it (the blu-ray player) to stop doing that and bitstream instead. Then you'll get the correct display on the amp and the pretty blue light.
Thanks for that..now what about the aspect ratio chaning automatically? can I get a full screen aspect ratio instead of the letter box one? Ive tried to establish if I can change the bloomin aspect ratio...from the 3 remotes tv, amp and blu ray and (im probably missing something) ( a brain???) i havent found a button to press so that I can do this. Any takers??
The_Lhc
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With The Dark Knight it defaults to Dolby so you need to go into the settings menu on the blu-Ray itself and select True HD.
@ lhc. Thanks for confirming that about the aspect ratio. I thought my bdp and/or TV was on it's way out and was getting a bit uptight about it
@ lhc. Thanks for confirming that about the aspect ratio. I thought my bdp and/or TV was on it's way out and was getting a bit uptight about it
The_Lhc
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No, the full screen parts were filmed on IMAX cameras, which is a taller resolution, so they're presented like that to give more of the cinematic experience.
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