Sony STR-DA7100ES - Manual (Page 96)

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Notes
• This function does not work in the following cases.
– MULTI CH IN is selected
– The DSD signal is received via i.LINK
– The sound mode for music is selected
– A DTS 96/24 signal is received and decoding is
done for 96kHz
• There may be no sound from the surround back
speaker in Dolby Digital EX mode. Some discs
have no Dolby Digital Surround EX flag even
though the packages have Dolby Digital EX logos.
In this case, select “ON.”
• SB DECODING MODE/SB DEC MODE is
cancelled when Dolby Pro Logic IIx is selected in
AUTO FORMAT DIRECT (A.F.D.) mode.
Selecting the Surround Back
Decoding Mode (SB DEC
MODE)
You can select surround back decoding mode
only when SB DECODING is set to ON or
AUTO and the input stream contains the
Dolby Digital Surround EX flag.
Notes
• Matrix decoding conforming to Dolby Digital EX
is applied regardless of the surround back decoder
mode setup when a sound field for a movie is
selected.
• Matrix decoding conforming to Dolby Digital EX
is applied if the speaker setting is 6.1 channel and
Movie decoding conforming to Pro Logic IIx is
applied if the speaker setting is 7.1 channel, when
you select Dolby PLIIx MS under the following
conditions:
– a Dolby Digital Surround EX signal is input
– the SB DECODING is set to AUTO
Input Stream indicator
When AUTO FORMAT DIRECT mode is
selected while the surround back decoder is
activated, the current decoding process is
displayed after the input stream is displayed a
few seconds.
x When the decoder conforms to
Dolby Digital EX
*
When the surround back decoder conforms to
Dolby Digital EX, if you decode a DTS-ES
Discrete [3/3.1] signal, this unit also decodes a
DTS-ES Discrete [3/2.1] signal.
SB DEC
MODE Speaker
setting Surround back
decoding
[DDEX] 7.1 ch Matrix decoder conforms
to Dolby Digital EX
6.1 ch Matrix decoder conforms
to Dolby Digital EX
[PLIIx
MV] 7.1 ch Movie decoder conforms
to Dolby Pro Logic IIx
6.1 ch Matrix decoder conforms
to Dolby Digital EX
[PLIIx MS] 7.1 ch Music decoder conforms
to Dolby Pro Logic IIx
6.1 ch Music decoder conforms
to Dolby Pro Logic IIx
Input stream After a few
seconds Current
decoding
process
DOLBY DIGITAL
[3/2.1] k DOLBY D EX
[3/2.1]
DOLBY DIGITAL
SURROUND EX
[3/2.1] k DOLBY D EX
[3/2.1]
DTS [3/2.1] k DTS [3/2.1] +
DOLBY EX
DTS-ES Matrix
[3/2.1] k DTS [3/2.1] +
DOLBY EX
DTS-ES Discrete
[3/3.1] k DTS [3/2.1] +
DOLBY EX
*
DTS 96/24
[3/2.1] k DTS [3/2.1] +
DOLBY EX