Having problems with sound and dialogue on DVD's?

[Kallison]

I think I asked about this once before but forgot. We seem to have problems with our DVD player and not our VCR tapes. The sound and music is very loud and the dialogue is low. Have to sit and constantly adjust the volume. We've replaced our DVD player and it is still happening. Is there something we can adjust to fix this? Is it a television speaker problem? Last night we watched Bend It Like Beckham and had to constantly turn it up and down........

 

[Kallison]

OK one of you techies knows the answer to this -- giving meself a bump.

 

[Charade]

How is your DVD player hooked to you TV?

One thing you may want to try is changing the audio output to just 2 channel stereo. Most DVD remotes have a button labeled "audio" which will cycle through the different audio streams available such a Dolby 5.1 or a different language.

If you have a surround sound system then something is either mis-configured or a connection has come loose because you stated that a replacement DVD player has the same problem. I would double check all the connections and settings in the surround sound system. If that still doesn't solve the problem and neither does switching the DVD audio to 2 channel stereo, then something is wrong with either the surround sound system, a cable or the TV.

 

[jfulcer]

Ditto on the type of 'stereo' you are listening to. Now, this isn't DVDs playing, but my satellite when set on ' Surround sound' gets louder/softer/etc at the most inopportune times. Set it to 'simulated surround' and it's fine. Could be your receiver has a similar problem.

 

[Shutterbug]

I also agree check audio settings on DVD player and also on your TV as well.
If your tv has surround settings you may want to change it to mono. Thats what my parents did to stop the turning up and turning down.

Now I heard the reason for this is because is in 5.1 surround music and sound effects are sent to the surround speakers which normally are placed farther away from you so the sound is bumped up.

If you are playing through a surround system, check for a setting on your receiver thats marked loudness. Make sure that is not on. If your loudness is on it increases the music and sound effects level so you can here them when your general volume is turned down.

 

[mickman1962]

OT reply but Disney in nature

when Leopold Stokowski was playing the tape for the music for Fantasia. Walt Disney kept lowreing the volume during the loud parts and raisnig it on the quiet parts before Stokowski had to tell him that's the way it's supposed to sound.

 

[LindaG4458]

We had a similar problem when our TV was set to surround sound. When we changed the setting the problem was solved!

 

[stinkerbelle]

hmmm...is that why my Lion King DVD annoys me? I can't heard the "words" to the songs....

 

[frannn]

Our home theatre system is a Durabrand I got from Walmart. The backround music in the dvds we have played this weekend has been louder than the actual voices. It has been driving DH batty, and in trying to figure out what was wrong, a dvd got stuck in the player after he used the cleaning disk in it...he tried to force the drawer open...and he thinks it snapped... So, we may not have had a big problem with the sound, but now it may be broken for good. Is it worth it to try to get it fixed?