I've enjoyed reading your responses. I should have been more correct in that my frustruation with Pioneer piece is that there isn't a way to choose to play the non-DVD Audio tracks contained on the DVD-A discs due to the internal architecture mentioned above. I would like to listen to the DTS encoded DVD-V audio tracks on the discs as well, not just DVD-A tracks. I will have to use my spare receiver to hook up the 5.1 analogue outputs to hear the multichannel tracks. I hope to get the setup done sometime this weekend to see how that goes.
Pioneer DV 47-A DVD-A output analogue only
I just bought the new Pioneer DV47-A multichannel SACD and DVD-A player. It looks great and sounds wonderful, but when I output through the digital output to my Meridian 568 processor/preamp, DTS and AC-3 are not available on DVD-A. The player automatically recognizes the disc as DVD-A and outputs only through the analog outputs, per Pioneer technical help this morning. Of course DVD video discs output fine for both AC-3 and DTS. I knew that SACD only output through analog out but didn't realize DVD-A did too. The real frustration is that I can play DVD-A discs in my traditional DVD player and enjoy DTS or AC-3 multichannel decoding from my Meridian (albeit at lower resolution) , but there is no selection available to read the DVD-A as DVD-V from the 47-A. Since my Meridian doesn't have multichannel analogue input (it's supposed to be the processor) this unit's multichannel capabilites are only useful with pre-amps/receivers with analog multichannel input capabilites. I do have a Yamaha receiver that I can use for this but it adds another component in the chain, which may decrease the resolution gain of DVD-A or SACD.
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