Dolby Digital oddity on 802

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Is anyone else seeing oddness on the audio on CBCHE? I'm watching the Canucks-Ducks right now, and the HD game feed is fine, but I lost the sound when they went to commercials, and got it back when they went back to the talking heads in the studio. This has been true of every game in the second round for me, but the more prevalent thing in previous games is that the SD commercials have sound and I lose sound the minute the HD comes on.

Just did it again - heard Ron's words, then silence on the Rona commercial.
I guess quiet commercials is not the worst thing, but ...

My equipment is a 9200 feeding a Yamaha RXV-995.
 
OK, so the "Overtime Magic" segment was in HD, but silent, and I heard sound from the studio until they went to the upconverted House of Commons segment. Just weird.
 
I finally solved this. Someone had hit the "Speaker A" button, which turned off the main left and right speakers, but not the center or the surrounds. Anything mixed to the center was fine, and anything mixed to front L+R was inaudible. I feel silly :rolleyes:
 
I'm guessing therefore that this problem was not specific to channel 802, but rather was not only on all your channels, but also on any other inputs on the AVR.
 
HA! We had exactly the same problem, but with a different Yamaha receiver model.

Don't feel too bad - ours is out of warranty so I was starting to look at new ones before I thought to try pressing the A/B button...
 
I'm sure that's true, 57. I don't think I happened to watch a DVD or tape in the period when this was bedevilling me, but I did watch other channels - I think the difference is that the CBC-HD does more without content in the center channel than, say, PBS-HD shows like Nature and Nova.
 
What was happening was that the signal was DD5.1, they didn't switch to DD2.0 for the commercials, therefore the improperly encoded DD5.1 signals (which come out the LF & RF only) were not heard by you. See the explanation in the following thread.

http://www.digitalhome.ca/forum/showthread.php?t=17870

Had you switched to any programme that was improperly encoded DD5.1, you would have heard nothing there too...
 
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