Phantom Mode Stopped Working?

[bobman1235]

Last night I threw in the Serenity HD-DVD into my HD-A2. It started up, and I had ambient sound... but no dialog. Receiver was set to "Center: None" like it has been for the past two years, but everything that should be going to the center was not being 're-routed' to my mains.

I changed the HD-A2 SPDIF settings from bitstream to PCM and sure enough I had dialog. But when in bitstream mode, and the receiver decoding the DTS, it just would not run in phantom like I expected.

I hooked up my center channel (I have a CSi30, just no real room for it) just to see what would happen, and sure enough there are my vocals.

So... anyone have any idea what happened here? I may just make room for the center and not worry about it, but it bothers me that it's worked for so long and suddenly doesn't.

[polrbehr]

Does it do that with all of your DVDs? Or just that one in particular?

If I had that center (which I do ;)), I would use it.


Or, sell it to someone who will use it for rear surround duty...

[bobman1235]

I'm going to try out a few other DVDs today to see if it was just that one. But the DVD shouldn't matter, since the AVR is doing the processing....

I gotta say, after having the center hooked up again... I did kinda miss it.

[polrbehr]

Or, sell it to someone who will use it for rear surround duty...


One last attempt at not-so-subliminal persuasion :)