HDTV and DVD volume

I have a Philips HDTV and a sony DVD player. When I play a movie in
the DVD player, the volume of the TV seems very weak than a cable
channel. Is there some setting that I am missing.

wrote:
I have a Philips HDTV and a sony DVD player. When I play a movie in
the DVD player, the volume of the TV seems very weak than a cable
channel. Is there some setting that I am missing.

I had maybe a similar problem. Volume was low when I watch DTV that was
5.1 surround but normal with other channels. Turns out that the HDTV was
set to simulate surround sound. When I turned that off volume was normal
for all channels so it may be a setting in the HDTV's menus.

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I have a Philips HDTV and a sony DVD player. When I play a movie in
the DVD player, the volume of the TV seems very weak than a cable
channel. Is there some setting that I am missing.



that's because you are getting the proper dynamic soundtrack - with the loud
bits loud and the quiet bits quiet.
with regular tv channels they filter the sound to equalise it - sounds like
that's what you want although it really does screw up how the movie is
supposed to sound.



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Gareth.

That fly... is your magic wand.
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Mike Ray wrote in news:feiqdr$35e$1
@ruby.cit.cornell.edu:

wrote:
I have a Philips HDTV and a sony DVD player. When I play a movie in
the DVD player, the volume of the TV seems very weak than a cable
channel. Is there some setting that I am missing.

I had maybe a similar problem. Volume was low when I watch DTV that was
5.1 surround but normal with other channels. Turns out that the HDTV was
set to simulate surround sound. When I turned that off volume was normal
for all channels so it may be a setting in the HDTV's menus.

I NEVER run the audio through my TV anyway. It goes straight into a digital
input on my stereo receiver and comes out in whatever format the DVD has,
whether it's DTS, 5.1 or stereo encoded to Dolby Pro Logic II. All the
decoding is done in my stereo.

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Dave Oldridge+
ICQ 1800667

Dave Oldridge wrote:
Mike Ray wrote in news:feiqdr$35e$1
@ruby.cit.cornell.edu:

wrote:
I have a Philips HDTV and a sony DVD player. When I play a movie in
the DVD player, the volume of the TV seems very weak than a cable
channel. Is there some setting that I am missing.

I had maybe a similar problem. Volume was low when I watch DTV that was
5.1 surround but normal with other channels. Turns out that the HDTV was
set to simulate surround sound. When I turned that off volume was normal
for all channels so it may be a setting in the HDTV's menus.

I NEVER run the audio through my TV anyway. It goes straight into a digital
input on my stereo receiver and comes out in whatever format the DVD has,
whether it's DTS, 5.1 or stereo encoded to Dolby Pro Logic II. All the
decoding is done in my stereo.


One issue I had was that the optical output on my HDTV works ONLY with
the ATSC tuner and not with the analog tuner. If I switch the tuner back
and forth (can get CBS only on analog right now) I would also need to
cycle the stereo receiver between optical input and stereo input, so it
was easier to just use the HDTV speakers for the built-in tuner and use
the surround sound stereo for DVD play back or maybe a PBS music program.

Mike Ray wrote in
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Dave Oldridge wrote:
Mike Ray wrote in news:feiqdr$35e$1
@ruby.cit.cornell.edu:

wrote:
I have a Philips HDTV and a sony DVD player. When I play a movie in
the DVD player, the volume of the TV seems very weak than a cable
channel. Is there some setting that I am missing.

I had maybe a similar problem. Volume was low when I watch DTV that
was 5.1 surround but normal with other channels. Turns out that the
HDTV was set to simulate surround sound. When I turned that off
volume was normal for all channels so it may be a setting in the
HDTV's menus.

I NEVER run the audio through my TV anyway. It goes straight into a
digital input on my stereo receiver and comes out in whatever format
the DVD has, whether it's DTS, 5.1 or stereo encoded to Dolby Pro
Logic II. All the decoding is done in my stereo.


One issue I had was that the optical output on my HDTV works ONLY with
the ATSC tuner and not with the analog tuner. If I switch the tuner
back and forth (can get CBS only on analog right now) I would also
need to cycle the stereo receiver between optical input and stereo
input, so it was easier to just use the HDTV speakers for the built-in
tuner and use the surround sound stereo for DVD play back or maybe a
PBS music program.

I can see where that could be dicey if the menu had to be switched every
time you switched from analog to digital and back.



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Dave Oldridge+
ICQ 1800667