DVd player voice

xyz123

hi

i have an old philips TV (dont know model no but its CRT). i have philips DVP3360 DVD player. i connect DVD to TV using RCA (red, white and yellow).

one thing i have noticed is that when i play any DVDs i have to put TV volume up to 35 to hear something properly. normal TV through sky, it is around 7-8. DVD volume is at maximum, is this common with RCA? i have checked and it is not a cable problem (by trying couple of other cables...)

aliEnRIK

Nearly all dvds have dolby digital sound, which means they have a very high 'dynamic range' (For people with home cinema systems)
So voices will be very quiet as the loudest point of the dvd (an explosion or whatever) must be accounted for

That said, you may have a poor input on the tv or output on the dvd player

Not that it would make any difference to sound, if you can, you really should connect the dvd player via a RGB scart cable for a much better picture

parallax_20

I'm no expert, but I've seen settings on DVD player setup menus which allow you to set the speaker configuration to suit your hardware. If its set to anything other than a 2 speaker configuration, then the sound is expected to be output to an external device for sound processing. i.e. Surround Sound system which also amplifiers the signal.

I've also noticed the Audio setting of the DVD movie also determine the sound quality to the TV, so try switching that to something else, other than DTS 5.1.

Just a few suggestions, not sure if it would help you greatly though.

I experience similar problems occasionally on my TV that's connected via HDMI. And it seems to be DVD disc/movie related and can vary.

Lifes to short to be tweaking settings for a single disc, so I just adjust the volume up and down as necessary. Who knows, you might be disappointed after all the tweaking to find the movie was rubbish and didn't deserve 5 mins of your time. Like I found out with the 2010 version of "Nightmare on Elm St".