Welcome Cliff, it's refreshing to see a fellow MyHD'er here.

input mode? you mean the optical 1,2,3,4?

"input mode? you mean the optical 1,2,3,4?"

No that is the input. The Input Mode is the setting for default decoding like Dolby D, Dolby EX, Stereo, etc..

See page 23 para 7 in the Owner's Manual.

[This message has been edited by Cliff Watson (edited February 24, 2004).]

sorry for the very late follow up... the problems is, it will display DD 3/2.1 or DTS on the front display, but output as stereo. and I'm sure the dvd i play are 5.1 surround.

Does the display switch back to Stereo shortly after showing it is DD 3/2.1?

The thing that bugs me is that the 950 defaults to 2-channel stereo when you switch from a DD 3/2.1 source to anything else. It would be nice if it defaulted to whatever surround mode you last selected was: Dolby ProLogic II - Music or - Cinema, for example.

It doesn't do that to me. When changing from a Dolby 5.1 source to a stereo source (PCM or Dolby 2.0) on the same input, the 950 remembers what processing mode that input last used for a stereo source (PLIIC-CR in the case of the DVD player) and uses that. When switching between inputs, each input remembers the modes that were last used for it.

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umm... now you mention it, it does do that...

That's because at some point you have changed the default mode for that digital input to Stereo, most likely when playing a stereo CD.

To get back to Dolby Digital 5.1 press the double "D" button on the remote and select Dolby D. After that it will stay in DD mode until you select some other default mode for that input. Because you have set the default mode to Dolby Digital when you play a stereo CD on that input it will change to Dolby ProLogic II. If you don't change the default to Stereo it will return to DD 5.1 the next time you play a DVD.

The reason it does not change back to DD 5.1 after being set to Stereo is because the processor thinks you want it to downmix the DD 5.1 channels to stereo.