Quote Originally Posted by joel2762
I think 2.0 Mono would mean that the same signal is output from the left and right channels. For example if someone talked on the right side of the screen instead of being output on the right channel it would come from both. Get me? As for playing Mono in Surround...On my Sony, You put it in Normal Surround mode. It plays everything the way it was originally recorded. The reciever only knows how it was originally recorded if you use a digital cable. Would switching to Analog cables and trying a DSP mode just for that mono movie do anything? You should try it!! --Joel--
Joel,

Thank you very much for your response; yet I apologize to report that in fact I do not follow what you're saying about the 2.0 mono...but with your reference to playing mono in surround, are you saying that because Im using a optical digital cable to connect my DVD player to the receiver, the receiver is going to automatically detect the mono signal and default to playing that film back in mono? OK. I can understand that, hence the reason for dropping in a mono DVD and the receiver defaulting to Pro Logic II-Movie mode and the entire DVD coming from the center channel.

But I dont think that running analog RCA cables from my DVD player into the receiver so I can mess with DSP modes every time I drop a mono DVD in the player would be realistic; but I understand your suggestion. Almost like a CD player with analog RCAs, which allows me to take 2 channel stereo music and turn it into 5.1 through Pro Logic II-Music mode, I may be able to do that through the DVD player's analog connections to the receiver for mono DVDs.

I just wondered if there was a way to do this with the DVD player connected digitally...the only DSP modes I can choose are ones which really make the sound pretty bad...normal stereo, TV Logic, Studio Mix, or maybe Orchestra...these mono DVDs sound terrible in these modes....