yep,couldn't wait!paused the cd and checked out the dvd.
first time i've ever seen a DTS icon on my 1050!
excellent!!i'll watch the movie later.

did anybody else see that?

i think gonk just took a bow!

- Success! Very cool.

No electron swan dives lately, but I'm keeping my eyes open...

and i think this took less than 5 hours.
where else can you get support like this?
even different manufacturers type support!!!

there will be a dive later tonight!

so far i really like dts,but i did have to adjust the delay,to zero.sounded like my sound room was a tin can!

perching on the edge of the fan blade ....

another question: if my dvd player is set for dts will it decode 5.1 if that is all that is available,or will i have to go back to the dvd menu to switch back,it's late and i won't have a chance till tomorrow to check!

The player menu settings simply allow the player to pass the raw data stream from the disc to the receiver - with no alteration to the signal by the player. The 1050 does the decoding, and it determines what decoding is required based on the format of the track on the disc.

I have a question for gonk or anyone more familiar with the 1050 than I am. I have been trying unsuccessfully to get LOTR's to play in 6.1 DTS mode. My unit plays perfectly in 5.1 DTS for this movie but after selecting 6.1 DTS in the movie menu the 1050 still will not light up the rear center channel. Is this a limitation of my cd player or the 1050?

The 1050's surround back channel processing is a proprietary software from Zoran that works with Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtracks but not DTS (due to the greater processing requirements of decoding DTS, I believe). For this reason, the 1050 will only decode DTS-ES tracks as DTS 5.1. Sorry.

As a somewhat unrelated aside, the Zoran processing (6.1 Surround) can be enabled with 5.1 analog sources to yield 6.1 surround. This method can be used to achieve 6.1 from DTS soundtracks (or Dolby Digital 5.1, DVD-Audio, or SACD, for that matter) decoded by a DVD player's internal decoder and passed via analog connections to the 1050.

here's a story:shortly after i got my 1050 i bought an IRON MAIDEN concert on dvd.i never had dd5.1 so i thought it would be really cool.well,it wasn't.the sound absolutely sucked,in ALL formats.(constant dropouts)i called the manager(who i knew) and he told me 'yeah,the sound sucks on that'(then why did he sell it to me?)and i could get 1/2 my purchase price in store credit(i paid $40),i marked it as a loss and have never bought from that store again!
well,going through my dvds today i saw it was in DTS also.so why not try it again,it's been gathering dust since i bought it.
well,the sound is PERFECT!!!the guy who mastered the DTS was a genius!it sounds like an outdoor concert,which it is.the rears have very little content besides the crowd and the front stage is in your face like 20 years ago when i saw MAIDEN.
(and no dropouts)

so the point of this story is GONK is so good he made my day again today,and i haven't even talked to him.

now when i rent dvds i'll have to be sure to check for DTS!(but i'm still not going to buy from that store)

I thought from many older posts on this board that there were no advantages to using DTS over DD5.1 (assuming that both items came from the same master).

Since I have added a sixth speaker, I have had a lot of success with the 1050 using the 6.1 mode and abosolutely no dropouts. That includes all of the LOTR Extended Additions and numerous other movies that had problems.