Changing initial settings
Digital output
Refer also to "Common procedures" (
initial settings" (
∫ PCM Down Conversion
No (Factory preset):
Yes:
When playing DVDs recorded in 96 kHz
Sound is output as follows in accordance with the connections and settings you have
made.
Connection
Setting
No
Yes
The connected equipment must be able to handle 96 kHz LPCM in order to take
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advantage of high quality audio found on these discs.
∫ Dolby Digital
Bitstream (Factory preset): When you have connected a unit with a built-in Dolby
PCM:
∫ DTS Digital Surround
Off (Factory preset):
Bitstream:
These changes to digital audio output must be made, otherwise bitstream sig-
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nals the decoder cannot handle will be output. If these signals are output,
"noise" will be output which can cause harm to your ears and speakers.
32
RQT6077
DVD
pages 28 and 29).
When you have connected an amplifier with audio cables.
When you have connected an amplifier with an optical
digital audio cable.
Copyright protection limits digital output to 48 kHz/16 bit.
Analogue
Output as 96 kHz
Converted and output
as 48 kHz
Digital decoder.
When you have connected a unit that doesn't have a built-
in Dolby Digital decoder.
When you have connected a unit that doesn't have a built-
in DTS decoder.
When you have connected a unit with a built-in DTS
decoder.
page 27) and the Audio menu in "Summary of
No output
(Audio will be output at 96 kHz if the
DVD has not had copyright
protection recorded on it.
Converted and output as
48 kHz/16 bit
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(No digital signal is output.)
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Digital
)
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