i recently bought wd tv pal (WDBPUF0000NBK). i know my question has been asked many times. i want to know if proper solution has been found
I connected wd tv to network switch and I connected my smart tv to network switch then I connected wd tv to smart tv with hdmi cable. i have sony bravia smart tv
If I play a movie by connecting external hard disk to smart tv and use media player of tv to watch movie or I connect laptop to smart tv with hdmi cable and I watch movie on smart tv then the audio in movie is normalized. I can hear the people speaking in the movie clearly when tv is on volume 20 to 30
I noticed that if I play movie on media player of wd tv then the people speaking is very low and I can’t understand what they say when tv is on volume 20 to 30. I have to raise volume of tv to 100 to be able to hear the people speak. Suddenly the sound effects of movie play and it becomes very loud so I have to lower the volume. The people start to speak so I again have to raise volume to 100
I don’t know. I think the fault is from the wd tv firmware. It is screwing up dolby digital sounds and not normalizing them properly
There is setting in wd tv called “dynamic range control”. It was off. Yesterday I was watching a movie called gone girl. I had to make tv volume 100 to hear the people speak in some parts. I then turned on dynamic range control and set it to max as one of the links said. also my tv has option “sound enhance”. it was off. i turned it on. That improved the speech and I could clearly hear the people speak when tv volume is 50 to 70
Gone girl is a new movie so it uses the new dolby digital and it seems the firmware of wd tv is screwing it up. I then watched just go with it. it is an old movie so it uses the old dolby digital. The speech on it was perfect and I could clearly hear the people speak when tv volume was 20
What do I do? I need to be able to hear the speech perfectly in all movies regardless if they use old dolby digital or new dolby digital when tv volume is 20. Should I buy a sound bar and use speakers of sound system instead of tv speakers?
cns00 wrote: What do I do? I need to be able to hear the speech perfectly in all movies regardless if they use old dolby digital or new dolby digital when tv volume is 20. Should I buy a sound bar and use speakers of sound system instead of tv speakers?
Buy a 5.1 Surround System … mine has Volume Control levels for all speakers …
Adjust the volume level of the “Center” speaker which is where the “Speech” comes from.
(eg. my setup [rear surround speakers are behind my chair] … Left Front =7 / Right Front=7 / Center=10 / Left Rear=5 / Right Rear=5 / LFE~Subwoofer= 8)
note: this applies for all Dolby Digital Audio and DTS Audio movies i have
p.s. TV Speakers Audio is cr@p and bad at downmixing 5.1 channels to “Stereo” … invest in some / at least … “modestly priced” external audio equipment and enjoy heaps better audio
thanks for your reply. around how much will it cost and what are some good ones?
i dont need something very advanced with many speakers. a few will do
as i said the fault is from the firmware of wd tv. take for example the movie 47 ronin. if i copy it on external hard disk then i connect hard disk to usb of my tv and i play it on media player of tv then the sound is perfect and normalized and the speech is clear when tv is on volume 20. same thing if i play 47 ronin on my laptop and connect laptop to tv by hdmi
i bought synology ds215j and put my movies on it. wd tv reads the movies from disk station and plays them on tv. when i watched 47 ronin using the wd tv media player i couldn’t understand the speech because it was quite low. i had to raise tv volume to 100 to understand the speech. setting the dynamic range control helped and made the speech understandable but it’s still not perfect
what exactly is going on? is the firmware of wd tv screwing up the speech of movies that use dolby 5.0 and dts? if i buy an external sound system then it will get the screwed up audio with low speech volume as input from the wd tv. will it fix the speech and out the speech with high volume? or will it just output the same screwed up audio with low speech volume?
it’s the same thing if i connect ext drive to wd tv or wd tv reads from my synlogogy. both are low. it is as i said: the firmware of wd tv is screwy
i just compared 47 ronin on my tv on volume level 24 by playing it on laptop connected to tv on one hdmi port and wd tv connected to tv on other hdmi port
the 47 ronin on laptop was much clearer and louder than the 47 ronin on wd tv
can u please do a small experiment for me? play a movie on your laptop by connecting laptop to your tv by hdmi and hear how it sounds on your sound system. next play that same movie and play that same part on your wd tv and hear how it sounds on your sound system
keep the same volume settings when u play on laptop and on wd tv. play a new movie that used dolby digital 5.0 or dts
compare how sound is on wd tv and on laptop. your sound system should output both with the same loud clear volume and not wd tv has lower volume than laptop
try it with old and new movies and tell me what u find
I used the same file on the Asus Notebook and WDTV … now the Asus Notebook in the video below , yes the “overall” volume is louder … because the notebook has it’s own volume control
But the video demonstrates that all channels (ignore the sub ch) are working at the same volume level connected only to the TV
Now, if your 47 Ronin movie (and/or others) have very low ‘speech’ [the Center Channel] then it’s the way the file was encoded …
Now that i recall, i remember giving the folks a couple of movies to watch (they only have a TV) … i remember them complaining that one of them had very low speech … so i had to re-encode the audio gain and boost the vol level.
Personally, i’ve had some movies where i could barely hear anything from the Rear Speakers … so i use the test file to check if they are working … if they are, then my setup is ok and it’s the movie file
The only way to individually adjust volume levels is by using an external Audio Receiver
I used the same file on the Asus Notebook and WDTV … now the Asus Notebook in the video below , yes the “overall” volume is louder … because the notebook has it’s own volume control
when i connect my laptop to tv by hdmi i cant use volume control of laptop anymore. i have to use volume control of tv
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JoeySmyth wrote:
Now, if your 47 Ronin movie (and/or others) have very low ‘speech’ [the Center Channel] then it’s the way the file was encoded …
no. it’s not about how sound audio is encoded. i told you i played the same part in the same movie using 2 different sources on my tv speakers. when i played it from my laptop the sound on tv speakers was perfect. when i played it from wd tv on tv speakers then the sound was lower
i noticed that the overall volume is lower when i play movie from wd tv. playing a movie on tv volume 30 from laptop is much louder than playing same movie on tv volume 30 from wd tv. that is only for the new movies that use the new dolby
i went to an electronics shop. i told them my problem. they told me to get my wd tv and try it there before i buy anything. i said ok. i went there today
first i showed them 47 ronin playing on my laptop which was connected to smart tv and then i showed them 47 ronin playing on wd tv. they saw how i had to raise volume to 100 to hear ok
they then got a sound bar and tried it. it didnt work. the sound bar outputted the same messed up volume and i had to raise volume to 100 to hear ok
after that they tested wd tv on a home theater system with surround sound. the sound quality was better and no need to raise it to max
