xhonzi said:
doubleofive said:

I'm not a fan of this DTS thing, mostly because my receiver won't read it. But my cheap Walmart receiver can play any kind of Dolby. It's sad, if I want to watch Star Trek TOS, the new mix I have to switch to my Aux Stereo In (my BR player can output DTS in analog stereo), but if I want to listen to the original mono, I get it lossless straight through my coax input.

Of course, it could be that I just need to buy a new receiver...
Every DVD player and receiver sold in the last 10 years should support ALL DVD BASED Dolby and DTS codecs. On Blu-Ray, however, you also get DolbyHD and DTS-HD codecs thrown into the mix. Most if not all players can stream the data to the receiver, but it's been a mixed bag on what receivers can decode what codecs.

005, is your receiver old enough that it doesn't even support DVD based DTS? And it seems that DTS on DVD died a silent death sometime before HDDVD came out. I think the LotR EE discs were some of the last I bought that had DTS on them.

It's not that my receiver is old, its that it's cheap. It has Dolby Digital only, but the DolbyHD tracks on Blus stream just fine (I'm sure they're being compressed a bit). The DTS-HD just gives me dead air. My BR player is marked as having "DTS 2.0 Digital Audio", which apparently decodes the DTS signal in-player and lets it be output via analog cables. I'm not sure if DTS would work even if I bought a new receiver, DTS is really vague about what the heck "DTS 2.0 Digital Audio" is.