View Full Version : Do voices on screen always come out the center channel?
Mbltn8
07-25-2003, 11:11 PM
This is probally a real dumb question. I have always thought when a person is talking on the far right of the screen his or her voice comes out the right speaker, but today I was noticing every DVD I watch all the voices just come out the center channel even if they are on the far right or left sides of the screen, but sound effects and other stuff still come out the left and right speakers. Is this has how it has always been with Dolby Digital and DTS 5.1, or is there something wrong with my reciever, speakers, wrong settings on my reciever,etc, or something like that that I have set up wrong?
Thanks
moondude
07-25-2003, 11:22 PM
Watch Spiderman........Both me and my dog went to the patio door when a voice said"Hey come out here"...Ah-Yup it was the left speaker!!!!!!! I felt sillier 'n hell, dog kept on barking.
moondude
Dialogue is typically now on the center speaker. Sound effects and music are on the other 5 typically. Although, as mentioned above, if an actor comes from the right and exits the left, sometimes the sound mix follows him.
There is likely nothing wrong with your system.
FatDog
07-30-2003, 11:19 PM
For Pro-Logic, all voices came out of the center channel. Make sure you have selected the DD sound track on your disk rather than the default pro-logic sound track.
Only a few disks have outstanding voices that come out of the L/R speakers if the actors are shot wide. Many disks do not bother.
"For Pro-Logic, all voices came out of the center channel. Make sure you have selected the DD sound track on your disk rather than the default pro-logic sound track."
DITTO on the above quote. For some reason some DVD's default to DD2.0 Prologic instead of DD5.1. Its the first thing I check on a new DVD. Releases of older movies are sometime only Prologic and some (shudder) are only Mono.
Lee
Originally posted by LeeS For some reason some DVD's default to DD2.0 Prologic instead of DD5.1. Most people don't have surround systems. That's why. It's incumbent on the person with the "more complex" technology to "change".
"It's incumbent on the person with the "more complex" technology to "change".
Ok, I can change if I have to. :)
Lee
