I just bought a Panasonic SC-PT1050 5.1 surround sound, and cannot for the life of me figure out how to get the rear wireless speakers to transmit sound, thought T-dub might have some ideas to try and solve the problem, the directions are worthless

9/11/2007 4:55:29 PM

What are you trying to output to the speakers? It depends on the settings but if you're not outputting 5.1 surround the rear/center speakers won't do anything. You can duplicate the front to the rear for stereo music by messing with some settings, or switch to a pro logic setting if you want to have 5.1 from a stereo input.

9/11/2007 4:59:00 PM

The panasonic is only a Pro Logic system anyway for the inputs (no digital input) so any sound out of the rear speakers for external sources will be minimal.

Your best bet is for a multi. ch. stereo mode, or hope the "music" mode does what you want.

Panasonic's HTIBs are crap in general though.

9/11/2007 5:10:53 PM

^Oh yeah my bad. I just looked it up. So it's not really a true surround sound system. No surround inputs. The pro logic 2.0 decoder just converts the stereo to be kinda surround.

9/11/2007 5:13:58 PM

they wouldnt sell a system that didnt have speakers work all around though, it is supposed to be dolby digital with the fiber optic wires, but I think there may be something with the transmitter because I was able to get the wireless woofer to work by programming it, but there is no directions for the two wireless rear speakers

9/11/2007 6:41:10 PM

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"they wouldnt sell a system that didnt have speakers work all around though"

All the speakers do work. They just aren't true surround sound. If you're not inputing an optical or surround sound (5.1) input, then the speakers aren't going to output a true 5.1 surround sound.

Pro logic 2.0 (the included decoder) will take a stereo signal and output 5.1 but it won't actually be true 5.1.

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"it is supposed to be dolby digital with the fiber optic wires"

Does it have an optical input on the back? If it does you can get 5.1 surround sound.

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"1 x Component video output ( RCA phono x 3), 1 x HDMI output ( 19 pin HDMI Type A), 1 x Composite video output ( RCA phono), x Audio line-in ( Mini-phone stereo 3.5 mm), 1 x Headphones ( Mini-phone stereo 3.5 mm) "

http://reviews.cnet.com/home-theater-in-a/panasonic-sc-pt1050-home/4507-6740_7-32467838.html?tag=sub

According to that, there's no optical surround input, if i'm correct. I just skimmed over it real quick though. It just has a stereo input.

[Edited on September 11, 2007 at 7:43 PM. Reason : .]

9/11/2007 7:36:54 PM