Basic 5.1 question

Ghill
Ghill Posts: 1
:eek: This might be a dumb question, but I sure need help. I have one of those old "digital ready" recievers. It is a Nakamichi AV 500. I just purchased the Polk audio RM6750 5.1 Home theater speaker system. I have found a DVD player that has built in Dolbt digital and DTS decoders. It has 5.1 audio output but no sub-woofer output. My reciever does have a sub-woofer output.

Supposably my digital ready reciever just needs a dolby digital decoder. My question is this, will the digital decoder send in the 5.1 and the reciever seperate the bass to the sub-woofer?

Help with this will certainly be appreciated....

Gary