sound problems with digital tv

by samsungashok Jul 14, 2009 4:47PM PDT

I am having problems with the volume dropping on my digital tv system. I have digital tv from time warner, sony home theatre & samsung lcd tv. I have all the components hooked up with hdmi 1.3a cables. On time warner you have a choice of watching non-digital channel or digital channel. When I am watching "non" digital channel the volume is at around 17 and when I switch to same channel but digital signal the picture improves a 1000 percent while the sound diminishes by 50%, I have to turn volume up to 34 or 35 in order to hear the sound on the digital channel.

Any ideas of why this is happening?

Thanks

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Sadly nothing new here.

by r. proffitt Former Forum moderator Jul 14, 2009 11:43PM PDT

Maybe some day they will figure out sound leveling. I've seen this issue across all makers.

Comcast is doing the same thing.

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Old news unfortunately

by Pepe7 Jul 15, 2009 1:21AM PDT

If I recall correctly, the non-digital offerings (& PCM) have more overhead, so on average they sound louder from our cable boxes. Some of the channels w/ Dolby digital content seem horribly low. Darn Comcast!

hth,
Pedro

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same with cox cable

by mamontano Jul 15, 2009 8:14PM PDT

I had to change the cable box settings to output pcm instead of
digital audio. Don't feel the need to tax the receiver.

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"tax the receiver' (?)

by Pepe7 Jul 16, 2009 1:51AM PDT

Please explain, as I don't think I follow you .

cheers,
Pedro

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turning it up more

by mamontano Jul 16, 2009 2:22AM PDT

That's all. Have to turn it up about 10 to 15 clicks (i guess db's)
more when the cable box is set to ouput digital audio instead of pcm.
That's all.

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