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I was wondering if you have a choice between Dolby Surround, Dolby Digital 5.1 or DTS.

Well lets say you dont have a Dolby Digital Decoder (or any decoder for that matter) and you play the film with DD5.1 or DTS.
Will it be quiet in some action scenes cause the sound will be coming out of speakers/channels that are simply not there?

I, myself have a 3d Phonic JVC Television and was testing X-Men between 5.1 and `normal`. Well I on some scenes `normal` seemed to be ok and 5.1 seemed ok in other scenes. Or it could be that I just imagining it to be different I dont know.

I hope someone can answer this. Basically I need to know and so do others I believe, that if you dont have a seperate decoder are you going to get the best benefit without a decoder by setting it to Dolby Surround and not 5.1 or DTS.

I dont think DTS can be downmixed from 5.1, but afaik all DTS discs have to come with an ordinary stereo track as well. If you have a Dolby Pro Logic or Stereo sound system, and you play a 5.1 Dolby Digital track, it will be downmixed by your player to Surround (which is of course compatible with Stereo).

But, if you have the choice, playback the 2-channel Surround mix if there is one, as downmixing doesn`t produce as good a mix as you`ll get from one done properly in a studio.

So due to my system choose the choice of not down mixing it but instead putting it on the `stereo` choice.

Thanks for your help bud. :)