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

[jjp735i]

I have noticed that the show Hawaii 5 0 does this. the background mix is so loud it drowns out the dialog. I always have to turn on the surround so that I can adjust the center to hear the dialog. If I try and watch with just the tv speakers I miss half of what they are saying. I find that dvds can differ in mix, but with surround set up you can adjust to sound good.

I did find in my Panasonic plazma sub-menu there is a setting to bring up the dialog, not sure what it is called, but it does help alot. Might want to search your tv audio set up, might find something similar.

Good luck, jjp

[Hyfi]

I have noticed that the show Hawaii 5 0 does this. the background mix is so loud it drowns out the dialog. I always have to turn on the surround so that I can adjust the center to hear the dialog. If I try and watch with just the tv speakers I miss half of what they are saying. I find that dvds can differ in mix, but with surround set up you can adjust to sound good.

I did find in my Panasonic plazma sub-menu there is a setting to bring up the dialog, not sure what it is called, but it does help alot. Might want to search your tv audio set up, might find something similar.

Good luck, jjp

I stated way early in this thread that for me, almost every DVD I played had the problem you just stated. I was using an old Denon DVD player at the time. I switched to an OPPO 93 and the problem is gone when playing any DVD as well as the ones that previously caused me problems with the background being louder than the dialog.