Old movie from the Forties...

PowerDVD reports "Dolby Digital 1.0", while the cover says "mono".

Should I contribute "Dolby Digital Mono"?

Audio is mono when all channels produce exactly the same sound. So, this has nothing to do with the amount of channels used.

I know that you know that, I only meant that 2.0 can be stereo, but it can also be surround (decoded into 3 or 4 channels) or mono. It al depends how the sound processor separates them. However 1.0 is always just mono.

Quoting kahless:

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This seems to be a little bit curious to me. Is it right, that the sound comes only from the center speaker, even if it's dolby digital 2.0 Mono? I do not see (hear the difference between DD 1.0 and DD 2.0 Mono??)

If your receiver decodes Dolby Digital and you don't have any 'custom' sound processing enabled then by default DD 1.0 should come thru the center channel and DD 2.0 thru the front Left/Right channels, ignoring the center speaker.

It will still be Monophonic but will sound better, assuming your L/R speakers are better than the center channel.

This is how my receiver works.

Quoting gtweeter:

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If your receiver decodes Dolby Digital and you don't have any 'custom' sound processing enabled then by default DD 1.0 should come thru the center channel and DD 2.0 thru the front Left/Right channels, ignoring the center speaker.

Fully agree, but just posting to add that my receiver has the option to put 2.0 mono through the centre or 1.0 through the front L/R if I want it to, but by default 1.0 should be centre only and 2.0 l/r.

FWIW all 5 of my speakers are identical so I don't use the options to try to get a 'better' sound using the preferred speakers.

Quoting Voltaire53:

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Fully agree, but just posting to add that my receiver has the option to put 2.0 mono through the centre or 1.0 through the front L/R if I want it to, but by default 1.0 should be centre only and 2.0 l/r.

FWIW all 5 of my speakers are identical so I don't use the options to try to get a 'better' sound using the preferred speakers.

My receiver does the same thing.  I can select a dozen or more custom sound fields but like you i let the receiver send the channels to their default speakers.  That work's fine 99.9% of the time.  And it detects Pro Logic when embedded in a DD 2.0 signal as well and spreads the sound appropriately.