If the center surround speaker is turned on in the setup (as recommended by Outlaw to avoid the EX flag error) but the "6.1 Surround" mode is not turned on, then no material is sent to the (nonexistent) center surround speaker and no material is taken away from the (hopefully very much existent) surround speakers. If you had the CS speaker on but had not turned 6.1 on, you would have experienced the un-altered Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtrack without dropouts. If 6.1 was on, then you were losing some information. The next time a Dolby 5.1 DVD is playing, turn off 6.1 (the 1050 will remain in 6.1 mode for Dolby Digital sources until switched back to 5.1) -- it will stay off, and you will be good to go. No assembly (or additional speakers) required.

Now, to find time to check out The Two Towers again myself -- it came last night, but season two of Angel also arrived, and Mrs. gonk promptly requested that the first disc find its way to the DVD player.

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