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What is wrong with my TV?

  • Member since: April 10, 2006 Total points: 945 (Level 2) Points earned this week: --% Best answer glddstgpsy26 S Why is the sound so soft on my TV? Why is the sound so soft on my TV? I have a Philips HDTV I bought last year. Its flat screen, and has wonderful picture and color. My problem is that when I watch a movie on either my SONY DVD player or my Playstation 3, the sound is so soft I have to increase my TV's volume to around 90 (out of 100). When I watch TV (on a DirecTV DVR receiver) the volume is plenty loud at 40. I have the Playstation 3 connected by an HDMI cable, and I have the DVD player connected by the three color cords (white, red, yellow). When I want to watch something on either player, I change the input to either HDMI or AV1. What could be the cause of this difference in volume? I think its ridiculous to have to increase the TV volume in order to watch a movie and actually hear what's going on. Does anyone have any ideas what is going wrong?

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    Not sure about the PS3 but for DVD players I can answer this. DTS and Dolby Digital are the 2 audio formats used on DVD and they have a very high dynamic range. Dynamic range is a measure of the difference between the loudest and softest sounds that a source can produce without losing any sound quality. You may have noticed that while watching movies the volume goes up during action/fight/chase scenes. This is the dynamic range in action. They intentionally make the usual dialogue etc. quieter than the action scenes so that the action is emphasized. On my Panasonic surround sound HTIB I normally set the volume to -10dB (range is from -84 to 0dB) as that is the highest it goes before the subwoofer level is turned down and it is also the volume where the dialogue is at a comfortable level (and the action blares). Having said that I will mention that on most players it is possible to disable and sometimes adjust the amount of dynamic range allowed by adjusting a setting in the setup menu called (appropriately enough) "Dynamic range compression” Turning this on will make all parts of the movie be at the same sound level. To me this makes the movie sound bland but it is quite useful when other people are sleeping as it stops you from having to manually adjust the volume during the action scenes so that it doesn't wake them up. Also I am not sure why you are using the composite video (yellow) input for the DVD as it is really killing your picture quality. I would be using progressive scan through the component video input if the TV and DVD player both have the ports and support it. If they don't have component ports I would at least use the S-Video connection.

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Look in the menus on your DVD player and your Playstation 3 I suspect there is a volume control on both of them, since both play too soft on HDMI and Video 1 Another possibility in the menus is that you have selected the wrong type of audio....I think PCM or Stereo are the preferred audio output for these... If that doesn't fix it, try swapping your Video 1 connection to the connection used by your Direct TV unit...at least you can verify it's caused by the device and not the TV....if it follows the device, it's the device, not the TV. Lastly, if you do find it's only the Video 1 and the HDMI inputs, then you need to get it into a Phillips Authorized Service Center, because it MIGHT be the input board.... But keep in mind many TVs now have adjustments that follow the inputs....IOW Video 1 settings on the TV are only for Video 1 and the HDMI settings in the menu are only for the HDMI connection. So if you change the AUDIO settings in the TV menu for Video 1, they may not make any changes to HDMI or Video 2 or any other ones.... That's why you can actually set your TV to the Direct TV input and get a list of the audio settings for it, then switch to Video 1 and set it exactly the same.....

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is it one of those weird things like where you have to turn the volume down with the tv, and then up with the cable remote?

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