Panasonic BD30 and Denon BT-2500 confirmed to have weak LFE output w/ HDMIPCM. | Thread profile

Is this really that big of a deal (until it gets fixed)? If you calibrate your system with upcoming BRD version of Digital Video Essentials, everything should sound fine. The only downside would be that you're having to power your sub a little bit more. What am I missing?

Quote: Originally Posted by Taxi Is this really that big of a deal (until it gets fixed)? If you calibrate your system with upcoming BRD version of Digital Video Essentials, everything should sound fine. The only downside would be that you're having to power your sub a little bit more. What am I missing? A ...

Quote: Originally Posted by Taxi What am I missing? The big deal is that even as we near gen 4 of Blu-ray, these still-expensive standalones are displaying issues that should have been caught before release. I can understand issues that arise from the varying BD profiles, but there’s no excuse for wonky audio.

Quote: Originally Posted by Taxi Is this really that big of a deal (until it gets fixed)? If you calibrate your system with upcoming BRD version of Digital Video Essentials, everything should sound fine. The only downside would be that you're having to power your sub a little bit more. What am I missing? ...

I really hope Panny can fix the problem before my return window is up. Then again, maybe it would be better to return it anyway... A little patience and in a few months I can get the BD-Live BD50 for the same price. __________________ For every shadow, no matter how deep, is threatened by morning light.

Quote: Originally Posted by Ruined There is no clean way to compensate for this problem. Your solution is not going to fix the problem, it creates new problems instead. Even with a brand new HDMI 1.3 TrueHD/DTS-HDMA receiver/processor you will be hit bigtime with this bug. This is why: On Blu-ray you primarily have discs ...

Quote: Originally Posted by brian Edit - Nevermind. I just checked and it only lets me decrease each format 10 or 20 decibels. Not increase? Interesting. __________________ Get outside and have fun!

Quote: Originally Posted by Iguana Man Not increase? Interesting. It really doesn't matter. To increase the signal of one of them, you just decrease all of the others. It's all relative. __________________ Why? fin.

Quote: Originally Posted by brian It really doesn't matter. To increase the signal of one of them, you just decrease all of the others. It's all relative. Yep, no clean workaround. It would need to be increments of 5 for it to work. Even then, it would screw up PCM from other sources....

Quote: Originally Posted by Ruined Yep, no clean workaround. It would need to be increments of 5 for it to work. Even then, it would screw up PCM from other sources. Agreed on the increments of 5, but the setting only changes PCM surround. I should have specified. ...