DVDs That Force You to turn the volume all the way up

[Sir Terrence the Terrible]

It never has anything to do with the DVD.
Might need to turn on dialog norm on the reciever, also
raising the center channel level is a quike fix.

Ummmm, you cannot control the dialog norm from a receiver. It is done at the encoding process, and that assigned level is in the metadata instructions that the decoder reads. You cannot turn it off, or control the level of the encoded metadata.

He says he is listening through his TV speakers, so there is effectively no isolated center channel - it is folded equally into the left and right speakers with its level reduced by 3db.

And he constantly says he knows more than I do