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Posted by dgates on 12/24/06 18:33
On Sun, 24 Dec 2006 09:49:59 -0600, Andrew Rossmann
<andysnewsreply@no_junk.comcast.net> wrote:
>In article <982dnf7Xe8aQ3hPYnZ2dnUVZ8qq3nZ2d@pipex.net>,
>david@davsarg.wanadoo.co.uk says...
>> I've noticed now on the last 2 DVD players that I've had that while any
>> music on a DVD movie is perfectly audible, i'm quite often left straining to
>> hear the remainder of the audio, especially the dialogue! I know for sure
>> that it's not the TV cos its done it with 2 different sets and besides the
>> sound is fine with live broadcasts. Does anyone know why this should be and
>> how could I go about fixing the problem. Just so you know, both sound and
>> vision are carried through the SCART cable.
>
>Do you have any 'stereo enhancement' type settings enabled in the TV?
>I'm asssuing the SCART is only passing on a downmixed stereo analog? If
>a DVD offers both 5.1 and 2.0 Dolby audio, is there a difference?
>
>Basically, I think some downmix or other issue is causing what would be
>the center channel to be suppressed. Many stereo enhancement features
>work by weakening center sounds (equal volume and phase in both
>channels) and enhacing differences (unequal volume and/or phase between
>channels.) If the DVD player is further downmixing 5.1 into stereo,
>there could be other issues with how they are doing it.
For all I know, it is possible that you're having some technical
difficulties, like the ones described above.
But it is also possible that you're just reacting to the same thing
that has bugged me about watching movies on TV for over a decade now
-- namely, that the volume levels on movies are set up so that the
dialogue is very quiet compared to the music and special effects.
If that's the case, most DVD players have a feature where you can
"turn down the contrast," as it were, on your audio.
On our main Sony DVD player, it's called "Dynamic Range Compression"
("DRC"), and we have the ability to set it to something like None,
Low, or High. When it's set to High, there is a lot of audio
"compression," meaning that the loudest audio is compressed down so
it's more similar to the quietest volume.
I think on another of my DVD players, it has a different name, with
settings for the audio having names like "Normal mode," "Movie mode,"
"TV mode," "Nighttime mode"... Something like that.
Check out the manual for your DVD player. Probably in one of its
Setup menus, probably somewhere under the Audio settings, you have a
similar feature.
Oh, by the way, I don't know how well the setting actually works, but
I've got all my DVD players set to maximum DRC, or TV Mode, or
whatever it's called on each device.
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