Voices sound like robots

bmlocal175 · Feb 12, 2012

Last night I switched to a Showtime channel and the comedians voice sounded like a robot. It was all garbled and sounded funny. I turned to a different channel and it was fine and then back and it was still messed up.

I recall the other night watching Gold Rush where I thought the voices sounded a little funny. My 8 yr old told me this morning that his shows, the people were talking funny. Any ideas?

I have the HR34. I'm using the digital RCA out to a Denon 4800 receiver. I have had this Denon for 10 years and never experienced this before with TW boxes hooked up both optical and RCA.

veryoldschool · Feb 12, 2012

Sounds like the audio may have gotten slightly off sync with Dolby.
This either came from the DirecTV end, or was in your receiver. If you can rewind the show, it might clear up if it's in the receiver.

nednarb · Feb 12, 2012

Gold rush was also digital sounding for us also. Haven't noticed it any where else though.

cnmurray8 · Feb 12, 2012

I noticed that same issue on MLB Network this morning.

JcT21 · Feb 12, 2012

noticed the same thing yesterday on MSNBC. havent notcied it since then.

AquiringSat · Feb 12, 2012

cnmurray8 said:
I noticed that same issue on MLB Network this morning.

+1

dsw2112 · Feb 12, 2012

nednarb said:
Gold rush was also digital sounding for us also. Haven't noticed it any where else though.

Yep, Gold Rush was definitely a problem.

fdglsg · Feb 12, 2012

trying turning the receiver off and then back it always work for me....

bmlocal175 · Feb 13, 2012

Is there a reason this is happening or just a small glitch in the system every now and then?

bmlocal175 · Feb 25, 2012

Happened again watching the truck race last night. Turned everything off and back on and fixed the problem. Very annoying.

montanaxvi · Feb 25, 2012

Last week mine did this during FaceOff on SciFi (I refuse to spell it the way they do now)

Rich · Feb 25, 2012

bmlocal175 said:
Is there a reason this is happening or just a small glitch in the system every now and then?

Happened to me a few weeks ago. Sounded hollow. Found settings on my AV set that were wrong. I switched TVs around from room to room and that caused the problem. I should have reset all the settings in both rooms, operator failure. Aside from that, I've never had a problem. You who are having problems might want to check the settings on your HRs, TVs and AV equipment, especially if you add a TV and move things around.

Operator failure, can't blame anything or anybody but myself. I should have known better.

Rich

veryoldschool · Feb 25, 2012

Rich said:
Happened to me a few weeks ago. Sounded hollow. Found settings on my AV set that were wrong. I switched TVs around from room to room and that caused the problem. I should have reset all the settings in both rooms, operator failure. Aside from that, I've never had a problem. You who are having problems might want to check the settings on your HRs, TVs and AV equipment, especially if you add a TV and move things around.

Operator failure, can't blame anything or anybody but myself. I should have known better.

Rich

I've had this a few times of late, and it hasn't been operator error here. I think it has to do with the Dolby encoding/decoding. Not sure if it's on the uplink side or on my end, but something gets out of sync and it sometimes "glitches" again and re-syncs. I do like blaming the MPEG-4 transcoder, since it is known to have problems. :lol:

Rich · Feb 25, 2012

veryoldschool said:
I've had this a few times of late, and it hasn't been operator error here. I think it has to do with the Dolby encoding/decoding. Not sure if it's on the uplink side or on my end, but something gets out of sync and it sometimes "glitches" again and re-syncs. I do like blaming the MPEG-4 transcoder, since it is known to have problems. :lol:

I was really surprised when it happened. Guess my problem wasn't what this thread is about.

Rich

veryoldschool · Feb 25, 2012

Rich said:
I was really surprised when it happened. Guess my problem wasn't what this thread is about.

Rich

It may have been, but the reason/cause was different.

Rich · Feb 25, 2012

veryoldschool said:
It may have been, but the reason/cause was different.

The thing that gets me is it doesn't happen on all channels. Sounds almost like the stations are at fault.

Rich

veryoldschool · Feb 25, 2012

Rich said:
The thing that gets me is it doesn't happen on all channels. Sounds almost like the stations are at fault.

Rich

It's a long chain between the station and our receivers, so there are many places for the sync to get slightly off, or to put it another way, there are many things that ALL need to stay in sync.

nednarb · Feb 26, 2012

Speed channel has been doing this a bunch over the last few days.

bmlocal175 · Feb 27, 2012

Had it last night watching the Oscars. It didn't get as bad, but I could tell it was starting to do it. Something is just not right.

I tried turning off my Denon or switching it from surround to stereo but did not help.

Richierich · Feb 27, 2012

I have had it several times particularly watching Golf.

To fix it I changed channels and then changed back to the original channel which seem to fix the Sync Issue.

I believe this is a Directv problem because it has happened on several different stations.

Maybe somone at Directv doesn't like Golf. :lol:

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