Hi im currently looking to buy some spears and have noticed that some have Dolby/DTS Decoding, could anyone please tell me what this means? as i am baffled. thanks
It means they can use dolby and dts surround. If I understand all this dolby stuff correctly its a bit of a misnomers because most sound cards can decode dolby and dts for you.
Hardware is better though as it dont use the CPU, the X-Fi soundcards can do dolby digital / dts when using 6ch direct and when using optical though your speaker system must do DTS and DD. DTS also is better than DD, i dont notice much difference, but its supposed to be High Definition and better quality than DD5.1.
I always wondered which was better. Our telly can only output Digital Surround, DD and Pro Logic and we use Pro Logic everytime. We can only have DD with the dvd player but its crap! You can never hear what people are saying. I messed with the volumes for hours but its still the same. Its not even Pro Logic II and its still the best. I want to build one of these Media Centre (lol, centre is spelled wrong!) boxesso hopefully il have better luck with the sound that way. We could stop using crappy scart leads then too.
DD aint as crap as you decribe it , something must be wrong with your home cinema, sometimes when i had my X-fi i watched movies and had the X-fi decode DD, when i use optical i have my Z5500 decode DD and DTS, and DD5.1 sound ok, as i said, i dont really notice much difference, maybe its clearer or something. You see your telly can output DD? do you mean the Home Theatre on the telly, or the actually telly? :s, i never noticed tellys outputting DD5.1 lol.
Yeah its the telly. All the speakers plug straight into the back. Then there are fibre-optic and coaxial plugs for the dvd and playstation.
A toshiba 36zp18q. Its quite old now but the best in Curry's at the time. Ive still never used the component input to see how good it really is. We've only used scart (is scart the same as composite or s-video?) The sub is in the telly and the centre speakers are on the front. Then you plug the satellites into the back. http://www.hardwareforums.com/gallery/showimage.php?i=596&c=3 Then you just press menu for ProLogic, DD, Digital Surround or Pseudo. I get confused with the dvd player because you have volume settings on the dvd player and on the telly. Thats why it took so much messing. Even if im just watching tv through the old sky box the sound is crap. We can only use DD through the digital input so it just stays on Pro Logic. Pro Logic even makes normal telly through the aerial on the roof sound good... news 24 is class when they run that video 30secs before the hour. Is that RGB thing on the picture a digital image input? I might buy a freeview box before I build the Media Centre and its a good chance to get both digital sound and video if those RGB leads are any good.
Nice tv , i wouldent use the speakers in the TV though, not powerfull enough , tommorrow my dad is getting a HDTV for the living room when we go chrimbo shopping for my mum, looking forward to watching stuff in HD
Yea, when i go into tescos at lunch at college i always walk by the HDTVs, usually they have some sc-fi program on, and DAMMNNNNNN there sharp! and deataled!, just need some decent speaker for it now lol, might try to get my pc speakers connected to it lol. woops were going abit off toping
guys which speakers hould i go for : Logitech Z-5450 Digital 5.1 Speaker System THX/Dolby/DTS Hardware Decoding 315W RMS or Logitech Z-5500 5.1 Speakers Digital THX/Dolby/DTS Hardware Decoder 500W RMS
Watts aint the main thing, but those rear speakers on the Z5450 can be a bugger, the Z5500 is withought a doubt the most powerfull, and its also cheaper. Z5450, 6.5" driver for the subwoofer + smaller enclosure for the subwoofer than the z5500. sattelites, 2.5" driver. Z5500, 10" driver for the subwoofer + larger enclosure than the z5450 Sattaelites, 3" driver. Defenitly the Z5500's.
