First of all, how has everybody been? Great to see this place alive and kicking with activity. I recently decided to ditch my satellite service in favor of "Digital Cable". So I got the DVR which is pretty similar to what I had with the Dish receiver.
Anyway, so I hooked up the DVR via "Coax" digital out to my receiver and noticed something strange. On most channels I got a sound with my Pioneer showing me "Dolby Digital" and on some channels I did not get a sound at all. I had my Pioneer set to detect the signals "auto" and believe me I do know a thing or two about setting up equipment.
So I thought I had to select some audio out functionality on the DVR but could not find anything there. So after a fruitless search, I also hooked up the analog L/R out from my DVR to the Pioneer which gave me sound on all channels BUT, now the Pioneer goes into DPL-II even on digital channels and not "Dolby Digital". The Pioneer detects the digital signal but only goes into DPL-II instead of DD. WTF is going on?
And finally I found on some HBO channels, I get "Dolby Digital". So I concluded that when I did not have the analogs connected, I was getting some digital channels as DD 2.0 and some in DD 5.1? And when I connected the analogs I now got the DD 2.0 as DPL-II and the DD 5.1 are coming out fine?
What's going on here?