Dish Network dynamic range

[William Lemmerhirt]

So, I finally got past my directv contract and got Dish back. Yay. Since I’m such a nerd and go through all the menus and settings and stuff, I discover something that kinda pissed me off. There are a couple settings turned in by default. One is volume leveler. The other is dynamic range. In order to adjust the latter, you have to set the former to off. Then you can choose from narrow, or wide dynamic range. The difference is pretty big and I think personally, this is ridiculous. IMO, the technician should make this information known to the customers upon setup. The narrow version says it’s focus is on voice while the music and background stuff is quieter. That’s great for a regular joe listening through his tv speakers, but my system is on even when I’m watching wheel of fortune. Maybe they know nerds like me will find that anyway? Idk, it’s a good option but I feel like it shouldn’t be buried in the settings.
Steam over.....

 

[panteragstk]

So, I finally got past my directv contract and got Dish back. Yay. Since I’m such a nerd and go through all the menus and settings and stuff, I discover something that kinda pissed me off. There are a couple settings turned in by default. One is volume leveler. The other is dynamic range. In order to adjust the latter, you have to set the former to off. Then you can choose from narrow, or wide dynamic range. The difference is pretty big and I think personally, this is ridiculous. IMO, the technician should make this information known to the customers upon setup. The narrow version says it’s focus is on voice while the music and background stuff is quieter. That’s great for a regular joe listening through his tv speakers, but my system is on even when I’m watching wheel of fortune. Maybe they know nerds like me will find that anyway? Idk, it’s a good option but I feel like it shouldn’t be buried in the settings.
Steam over.....

That's one of the first things I check on an STB. They've had that enabled for a long, long time. You said it right, it's for the 90% of their customers that listen through the TV.

I had Dish years ago, but I like DirecTV's programming better. ATT will find a way to screw it up though...

 

[William Lemmerhirt]

I didn’t even know it was a thing, but I always check the audio and video areas to make sure I’m getting the best out of whatever I’m setting up. What a surprise. I do understand why that’s the default, I just think the tech(who maybe doesn’t even know about it) should make that known. I mean my monkey coffins are big enough to fit him into, lol. Should have been obvious.

We had dish for about 17yrs but bundled directv cause att is our cell provider. For us programming was a horse a piece, but I like interfacing with dish better, and I did notice some picture anomalies with Direct so...
so far so good anyway.

 

[panteragstk]

I didn’t even know it was a thing, but I always check the audio and video areas to make sure I’m getting the best out of whatever I’m setting up. What a surprise. I do understand why that’s the default, I just think the tech(who maybe doesn’t even know about it) should make that known. I mean my monkey coffins are big enough to fit him into, lol. Should have been obvious.

We had dish for about 17yrs but bundled directv cause att is our cell provider. For us programming was a horse a piece, but I like interfacing with dish better, and I did notice some picture anomalies with Direct so...
so far so good anyway.

Nice. Glad to hear the PQ is good. DTV seems to have gotten softer over the years.

I've never had a tech that even knew that the STBs were capable of Dolby Digital audio, much less where the options to enable are. Had to dig through myself. That's how I figure out all the boxes are set the same way regardless of company. It's an odd industry standard for sure.

 

[William Lemmerhirt]

Nice. Glad to hear the PQ is good. DTV seems to have gotten softer over the years.

I've never had a tech that even knew that the STBs were capable of Dolby Digital audio, much less where the options to enable are. Had to dig through myself. That's how I figure out all the boxes are set the same way regardless of company. It's an odd industry standard for sure.

Yeah, I’ve been happy with the pq considering the source. Audio is decent enough, but if I’m gonna have reference material, I’ll buy the disk. The CS guy I talked to when I was canceling, said Directv has switched some satellites over the years, and due to keeping up the compression scheme had changed some. Although he couldn’t elaborate too much on that. Made sense anyhow.

I’ll just consider myself lucky that I normally think to check all the variables I can.

 

[lovinthehd]

Like many things, they come enabled to plug and play with the provider's idea of what you want geared to the "average" user or whatever. It'd be nice if on installing something like this there would be a choice, do I want to use default settings or would I like to go through them individually?