Posted by Terry Overall on 09/21/67 11:31

I have all the R1 releases. I had a look on line for an answer as the THX
promo is picking up the EX flag on the EpIII DVD, but not the main feature
on my Sony 795.

Seems as though this is a problem with all the prequel DVD's.

http://www.hometheaterforum.com/htforum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=243957

You can force EX decoding on the receiver, but I think it's pretty poor that
a high-profile release like this has an error with the surround decoding -
especially given that EX exists in the mix for the THX short.

TEL

"Tony" <tony@blah.blah> wrote in message
news:3t8jjqFri07bU1@individual.net...
> I've got the R1 Star Wars prequel DVDs and they all claim to be in Dolby
> Digital Surround EX. My Sony DB-1080 amp is set to switch the rear centre
> speaker on automatically when it detects the EX flag in the soundtrack,
> but it only does this for Attack of the Clones. For The Phantom Menace and
> Revenge of the Sith I have to tell the amp to use the rear centre speaker
> explicitly as it just outputs normal DD5.1.
>
> Has anyone else noticed a similar problem? Does it exist on the R2 DVDs as
> well? Is the EX flag missing or is my DVD player and/or amp just rubbish?
> The original trilogy DVDs (also R1) all seem to have the EX flag and my
> amp has no problem with them.
>
> Thanks,
> Tony
>

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