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Upsample definitely DOES NOT upsample all channels - I just thought I remembered reading that it upsampled the front two channels even in DD. Maybe Scott can shed some light on this.

I couldn't set my DVD to Upsample for calibration because of the level "issue" that I described in earlier threads so I had to set it for PLII for calibration and leave it.

Whoops. OK. The FAQ for the 990 seems to state it's a stereo only mode.

Doug917 made a comment in an earlier thread where I asked this question that Upsample did work with the front two channels of a DD source.

So I'm still unclear but I'm beginning to think that Upsample is for a stereo source only.

Andrew,

I would agree with the above staement when speaking about the 990. However, with the AVP7 the upsampling occurs on all modes when it is engaged in the GUI.

I remember a big discussion about upsampling on the Sherwood over on AVS. I believe they finally concluded that it upsampled all the time including surround modes on all the channels, sounds like the AVP7 may do this too. I wonder why the Outlaws went the other direction with this?

I also noticed the PCM DD preference thing last night while watching Zeps How the West Was Won DVD. It has all three soundtracks PCM/DD/DTS. I wasn’t paying close enough attention but I’m pretty sure it did what blaineh described. Wish I’d read this thread before as I would have checked a little closer. It’s not that big a deal for me.

I finally had some time last night,,,well not exactly but stayed up until 1:00 in the morning trying to update 990 firmware. Once I tried different computer along with another download file, it seemed like the update was successful. However, I tried to rename the audio input but wasn't able to. I thought ability to rename audio input was one of the updated feature right? or did I miss read. Anyway, I didn't have any time to check any other updated features last night, I had to get up early in the morning to go to work. I am going to spend some time this weekend to find out for sure. I was just wondering if anybody else has same issue like mine after the update.

I thought the upgrade process (I used USB) was quite easy and compliment Outlaw on the ease of the upgrade and the thoroughness of the instructions. I was able to rename all inputs after the upgrade.

After reading again all the instruction, I think I found out what I did wrong. I can't confirm this since I am not at home right now. This confirms that I am getting old and I shouldn't have tried this kind of updating half a sleep. Even after all those years of working with computers, I manage to screw up here and there. I feel stupid and silly,,,,oh well.

Finally my 990 firmware upgrade is completed and working great. I was pretty happy with my 990 before the upgrade and now although the upgrade features were small changes but it feels like getting new piece of equipment. Maybe my "upgraditis" will be tame little longer with 990's future firmware/software as well. The only thing I didn't like about from this firmware upgrade is the sub's trim level goes "wild" after certain level trimming (-13 dbs???). If the other member didn't mention about this bug, I am pretty sure that I thought my sub driver was fried. Anyway, overall I am satisfied with the 990's recent firmware upgrade.

Yep hopefully they will fix that bug. In the mean time just keep the total sub trim between the two channel offset and the normal channel trim greater then -15db total. If it is jumping at -13db you probally have a -2db two-channel offset dialed in. The temporary solution is to turn you sub amp gain down if you are getting close to the -15 limit.

Yeah, it was my two channel sub off-set that triggered the sub going full blast. Maybe it is my imagination but overall accuracy seemed little better now. I did just that lowering my gains of my subwoofers to compensate for the bug.