Philips Rhythmic Edge PSC703 - Manual (Page 28)

Using 4-channel surround speakers your Rhythmic Edge™ sound card can deliver
true multi-channel surround sound from a compatible soft-DVD player
application even if the player only supports stereo output. If the soft-DVD player is
capable of providing a 4-channel Dolby Digital™ down-mix Rhythmic Edge will out-
put all 4 Dolby Digital channels. Even if the soft-DVD player supports 4-channel
Dolby Digital™ you may prefer using QMSS™ playback of DVD’s because of the
enhanced rear channel content it provides. If you have only stereo speakers Rhythmic
Edge can also provide virtual surround using its QSurround feature.
To enable 4 speaker QMSS™ DVD enhancement:
1.
Make sure “4 Speakers” (and "Expand All" for Windows® 2000) is selected in
the Rhythmic Edge control panel settings tab.
2. Open the “control panel” or “settings” menu for the soft-DVD player.
3. Select the menu or tab that controls the player’s audio settings.
4. Look for a panel that allows you to select the number and type audio channels
5. Select either 2 speaker “Stereo” or 2 speaker “Dolby Surround or ProLogic”.
Either option will work well as the QMSS™ DSP algorithm does not depend
on Dolby encoding. (Effectively you should follow the soft-DVD player
instructions for playing back over stereo speakers even though you have a quad
speaker system connected).
6. Close the control panel and play a DVD. Rhythmic Edge will detect that it is in
4 speaker mode but is only receiving two channels of audio from the DVD and
automatically generate 4 distinct channels of surround sound using QMSS™.
To enable a 4 speaker Dolby Digital™ playback :
1.
Make sure “4 Speakers” is selected (and for Windows® 2000 that "Expand All" is
NOT selected) in the Rhythmic Edge control panel settings tab.
2. Follow the soft-DVD players instructions for 4 speaker playback. (Some players
will not offer this feature)
3. Play a DVD and Rhythmic edge will output the 4 channel Dolby Digital sound
provided by the soft-DVD player.
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DVD Playback Modes
I NFORMATION T AB
The information tab provides detailed information about your sound card. This
includes the model number for your product and software version information.
Control Panel
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