Anyone else experienceing this problem.
I used to get NCIS and CSI Miami on Sunday nights as full surrround, but in the last two weeks only the standard left and right channels are encoded on the dolby stream.
I have a Sony TV with Freeview build in, feeding the surround amp through an optical cable. The amp displays that it is decoding Dolby Surround (whcih it does only when you tune to TV3) however, only the left and right channels have any audio on them. To prove it wasn't the amp, I grabbed an old DVD player and ran the optical cable from it to the same input on the amp and played a Dolby 5.1 DVD, all channels work fine.
This all used to work fine, so I can only deduce that TV3 and or Freeview are only encoding L&R on these programs. The next test will be Tuesday night with CSI New York which is also supposed to be 5.1
I am receving via the Wellington Mt Kaukau transmitter.