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Originally posted by Mark_H:
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Originally posted by Ronomy:
[b] I just watched Sahara in HD tonight! WOW! Looked awesome.
Shame about the film, I doubt even Daniel liked this one wink

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I was listening to the DD+ soundtrack via the SPDIF output and noticed very little in the rear channels. I switched to the DTS soundtrack and the rears came alive. Has anybody else noticed this? I'm wondering if its just a different mix or maybe a conversion to AC3 problem in the player? Now that I think of it on friday it seemed like Planet Earth had very little surround info and thats also DD+. [/b]
Are your player output settings correct? I've not noticed this sort of difference before. Any chapter in the film we can check?

Mark [/QB]
It seemed to be lacking rears for most of the film with DD+ enabled. They were there but very low. I had to crank the rears and sides up several dB. It may have been the mix. I just started using my XA2 and other than one episode of Planet Earth this was the first movie I watched. I'll have to try different movies and see if there is a common drop in the rears with DD+. The front three channels and LFE sounded better with DD+ compared to DTS. Explosions were stronger and the dynamics were better.

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