Quote Originally Posted by hershon
Lets exterminate these people together, LOL! Here is some good news as I think you've misinterpreted something, unless I have. If you hook your TV audio through your receiver (and turn your TV speakers off or set to 0), and use the "leveling out option" on the TV, then the sound coming out of your speakers will still be the levelling out sound. As I said, I haven't used this option because I'm convinced it will affect the sound of the shows/DVD's I'm watching in that it will flatten it out. I'm not 100% sure about that though. What I don't get in the first place are the scumbuckets who thought it was a good idea to increase the volume on commercials, movie previews, etc. All it causes is negative feedback from people like you and me who then ignore them instead of watching them.
So, Hershon, are you saying that I should route the sound through my TV first, then to the receiver and out to my speakers? Wouldn't that degrade the sound though? In other words, the sound would be processed by the TV in order to level out the volume and then the sound would be processed a second time by the receiver?

Kursun, thanks for doing the experiment. Is there any downside to sound quality when the receiver switches into a digital mode? I don't have a tv that would level the sound as Hershon suggested, so for the time being I am limited to using something like a receiver's midnight mode.