Foxtrot is right. It should have a decoder built in.
When i bought my first DVD player back in 1997 it had no on-board decoder, in fact, my reciever did not either, i had to buy an AC-3 decoder to get DD5.1
My second DVD player was the same way. That one later got cooked by sitting on top of my reciever (stupid me) and my third one was the first one with the decoder built in.
Nowadays almost every DVD player has a built in decoder, unless you go with one of those 59.95 DVD players from Walmart, i dont think they do.
But i guess if all you can afford or all you care to spend is less than 60 bucks, then you probably wont have a surround setup anyways.
So basically, yes. Except for the crappiest of the crappy, all dvd players have at LEAST 5.1dd decoder built in, any Moderatly priced DVD will have DTS as well.
Like foxtrot pointed out though, chances are your reciever does a better job decoding it than your DVD player.
Its also alot cheaper to buy 1 high quality COAX than 6 Moderate quality cables to run into the 5.1 inputs.
When i bought my first DVD player back in 1997 it had no on-board decoder, in fact, my reciever did not either, i had to buy an AC-3 decoder to get DD5.1
My second DVD player was the same way. That one later got cooked by sitting on top of my reciever (stupid me) and my third one was the first one with the decoder built in.
Nowadays almost every DVD player has a built in decoder, unless you go with one of those 59.95 DVD players from Walmart, i dont think they do.
But i guess if all you can afford or all you care to spend is less than 60 bucks, then you probably wont have a surround setup anyways.
So basically, yes. Except for the crappiest of the crappy, all dvd players have at LEAST 5.1dd decoder built in, any Moderatly priced DVD will have DTS as well.
Like foxtrot pointed out though, chances are your reciever does a better job decoding it than your DVD player.
Its also alot cheaper to buy 1 high quality COAX than 6 Moderate quality cables to run into the 5.1 inputs.