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Paramount 5.1 Audio Workaround
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Post 1 made on Wednesday October 7, 1998 at 15:18
Daniel Tonks
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Like the reports have said, when you play one of the new Paramount DVD titles it always defaults to Dolby Surround, unless you manually selected 5.1 from the setup menu every time.

Well, it got me thinking - in the Paramount titles, it always defaults to the Menu screen, rather than just starting the movie like other films.

There's also no way to skip the FBI Warning, etc, so your basically forced to do it their way. Now, when you hit PLAY MOVIE in the Menu screen, I figured that opposed to simply issuing the PLAY MOVIE command to the player, where the player would auto-detect the soundtrack, it was also issuing the default settings in the setup screen along with the play command, ie. PLAY MOVIE, AUDIO TRACK 1, NO SUBTITLES. So, even if your DVD player could auto-detect the 5.1 track, it was specifically being given the command to use the 2.0 track.

So, here's a workaround for the Sony players, or at least the S500D. It may be debatable whether it's faster, but it does show that our players are indeed working properly.

While in the Menu screen, hit SEARCH MODE. In my player, the first mode is TITLE SEARCH. Press 1, then hit enter. The movie will start playing - with 5.1 sound!
OP | Post 2 made on Monday November 2, 1998 at 23:33
sirduke
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nice tip, but i'm not sure that i'd rather do that than just go into the audio setup menu
OP | Post 3 made on Thursday December 10, 1998 at 15:01
Jay
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I like the tip and look forward to trying it with my 500D.

Sirduke, I agree that on some Paramount titles I've rented, it's not that big a deal; but it's not as easy as it should be. I seem to recall that Top Gun even makes you conciously go through a few extra steps just to get out of the menu after you've selected 5.1. Ridiculous!

Since this is a remote board, how about using Daniel's trick for a simple macro button you hit when you want to play a Paramount DVD? Seems like a natural for the Pronto or the IRIQ. But then again, does Paramount deserve to get it's own macro button when they're the ones that made our lives difficult in the first place?

OP | Post 4 made on Monday March 15, 1999 at 18:16
Bevan
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I have a Pioneer DV-505...Over the weekend, I just decided to try getting past the titles that gives you a menu rather than playing the movie straight away. This is what I found:

1) On Star Trek First Contact, I can just press '1' on the remote, and it'll jump to chapter 1, which starts the movie.
2) On Simitar titles, pressing '1' gives the copyright warning. However, while the copyright warning is playing, pressing '1' again will jump to the start of the movie.

As for the default to Dolby Surround instead of 5.1, I find it annoying too, but then, my player has a 'condition' button which will remember the settings for quite a few discs...so after I change a title's soundtrack to 5.1, I press 'condition', and the next time I put the disc in, it'll automatically put it in 5.1.


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