I hope this is in the right forum; it’s not about the actual films, more the media they are stored on.
Whenever I am watching a DVD late at night I turn the sound down quite low so I don’t wake anyone in the house up. Unfortunately, I spend most of the time turning the volume up and down - if I have the volume at the right level for the speech, whenever any music or sound effects come in I’m frantically turning the volume down! The when the music/explosions die down I can barely make out what the people are saying.
If I have the volume up higher it seems OK, but why are the sound levels so varied when the volume is turned down low?
The DVD player I use has a speech enhancement feature (which doesn’t work very well btw) and I’ve seen players with background noise reduction; why do players need these? Can’t the DVD makers just set the sound at the right levels before they sell them?
The TV I watch films on isn’t connected to any home theatre sound system, but if it was would the speech come out louder from the centre speaker, thus solving the problem?
Does anyone else suffer from this / find it annoying?
Tuco.