For the last several months, I’ve been having a weird problem with the dialogue cutting out on my tv. It doesn’t happen all the time. It only happens on ABC shows. It happens at the beginning of the show or just coming back from a commercial, never in the middle of a scene. It lasts a minute or two at most. The sound doesn’t cut out completely; the background music is still there but no dialogue.
It last happened Tuesday night at the beginning of the second episode of Scrubs. Has anyone else had this issue? Anyone know what it might be?
My wife DVRs General Hospital (ABC) every day. The audio cutting out seems to be a reoccuring problem. Any other shows we watch are on NBC or CBS and we’ve never had this problem.
I’ve found that if I’m having audio problems, if I unplug my cable box, then plug it back in after 10 seconds, essentially rebooting it, it usually solves my audio problems. You could try this.
I spoke to an engineer at a television station about this. He said it happens mostly with channels on the lower end of the cable lineup, is caused by loose connections between hardware, and affects analog TV sets.
In addition to the sound cutouts, sometimes the screen goes black for a second, on the 46 and 47 channels (CNN). I don’t think our TV is analog (granted, I’m lucky to be able to tell a cable box from a DVD player).