I need help with DTS

Does your DVD player say DTS on the front somewhere? If so your half way there.

I don't have a dvd player yet. Does it need to say dts on the front? In order to truly hear dts sound, my dvd player and my receiver must have dts?

That is correct make sure they both say DTS on the front. Hooking them up is easy. Take care:~)

Endo, it can be a pain getting all your settings right on your receiver to playback DTS the first few times. You'll eventually become fluent with all the steps involved, but if you have a learning remote that supports macros that could eliminate all the button pushing.

Let's say you've been listening to music in 2-channel mode and want to switch to DTS to watch a DVD. Usually, you'd need to follow the steps outlined by Plato above. With my old Marantz pre/pro I need to specify BOTH 5.1 playback and coax input.

Recording a macro and assigning it ONE button makes things a breeze. Once you get it set, you just press one button and it switches all the inputs and modes from 2-channel CD to DTS DVD. Pretty cool.

Have fun!

An even better way is to get a processor that that THX Ultra like one of the Meridians or even a Marantz Receiver. The THX processing, while not actually an encoding like DD or DTS will blow them both away. Also, a THX processor can output THX even if the DVD player is not a THX one. Just a thought