[vaylon]

I seem to have a serious problem with dish networks embedded commercials on my 722. The volume of the audio goes up way to high, but just on the commercials that dish sells. Commercials like "liberty medical", "Chuck Norris's home gym", "the hover-round" and the list goes on.
I read thru the manual to see if their was some kind of "normalizing audio control" but so far no luck.
Anybody have a clue as to what I am talking about?
I called tech support and they were not aware of an audio volume increase on their sold advertisements.

My system is a vip722 hooked up to a 65" 1080p led all thru the hdmi hookups. Audio is run thru an onkyo sr805 receiver and thru the tv. The volume increases regardless of if the receiver is on or not.

Any ideas on what I can do?
Thanks

 

[space86]

I have a 722 HD DVR on my Sony HDTV, and notice that the volume goes up for
me as well when I see Dish Ads.

 

[BattleZone]

Any ideas on what I can do?
Thanks

There is nothing you can do. Dish sets the audio levels of their commercials at the ground station; absolutely no way for you to control that. And the networks set the volume on the other ads.

This is an old problem, but is getting even more noticable.

Commercials have a louder average volume. They use dynamic compression to greatly "compress" the difference between the softest and loudest sounds, and then raise the overall volume as much as possible. This technique has been used since the beginning of TV advertising, as they want the commercials to get your attention, and they want you to hear them even if you get up and go into the kitchen for a snack.

The reason it is more noticable for a lot of people is that more folks are using external audio (the TV speakers can only go so loud; external speakers can go much louder), and more content is being produced with better audio soundtracks. Movies and some other content (Late Night talk shows like Leno and Letterman, for example), use Dolby Digital 5.1 audio mixes, which have a lower average sound level than most TV. This is necessary to allow there to be more of a difference between a whisper and an explosion or jet flying overhead.

If you combine the two (DD 5.1 audio and external speakers), and then go from a movie or show with a good 5.1 soundtrack that you had to "turn up" a bit to hear, to a dynamically-compressed mono or stereo commercial at max volume, your external stereo will seem to blast you across the room.

Again, this is a very common complaint, and even something that a few congressfolks have tried to pass bills against, but it isn't likely to change soon. We might be able to get Dish to turn down the volume a little bit on the ads they insert, but remember: the people paying for those ads want them LOUD!

 

[oljim]

You have a DVR use it, record everything, then skip the ads

 

[Bill R]

You have a DVR use it, record everything, then skip the ads

And, at this time of the year, that is the only way to watch TV. Around here every local (30 minute) newscast has at leas 4 political ads and it is only going to get worse between now and November 4th. They have even started putting them in the Saturday morning children's programming.

 

[oljim]

I wonder why people ask, how do I watch one program and record a program at the same time. record them both, watch them after they start and skip the adds.
That is why you have a DVR, I watch nothing live.

 

[Taco Lover]

You have a DVR use it, record everything, then skip the ads

:lol: This is what I was going to reply with. Who watches commercials when they have a DVR?