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Do you always get a "reasonable" signal from the DVD players stereo outputs?

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In Reply to: Analog outputs from DVD Player? posted by wcvb on December 19, 2002 at 09:48:20:

What I'm seeking to determine is whether you are always guaranteed to get a "reasonable" and usable signal from the DVD players analog stereo outputs regardless of what kind of disc is being played.
If this is the case then one can enjoy DVD movies in stereo while getting all the necessary audio information, albeit without the surround sound.
Please advise.

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Check the DVD set-up menu. - R. Hertz 06:48:01 12/20/02 (2)
There should be a setting for stereo/2-channel via the DVD player's set-up. Obviously you won't get the full effect of multi-channel but it should be ok for casual viewing.
- Doesn't some of the DD/DTS 5.1 downmix to 2ch while preserving the surround information? - lwang 23:13:47 12/20/02 (1)
  By doing some sort of ( Surround L + Surround R ) / 2 and placing it in the L & R channel, with one of the signal's phase inverted. This way, the information could be extracted by DPL processors.
  I presume they are already doing it for the center channel, or else dialogue would never be present in DD/DTS 5.1 via analog 2ch output.
  - The Dobly processor can do a variety of functions, - R. Hertz 09:13:58 12/21/02 (0)
    ...depending on the source material. It can synthesize som ambient information from stereo recordings and create an ersatz surround sound. The Dolby website has lots of info, much of it over my head. Here's the link:
    - Dolby Labs

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