[opendtv] Re: No Commentary on Fox/NASCAR Broadcast

  • From: John Golitsis <jgolitsis@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2007 09:25:36 -0400

Well you certainly know what you're doing then. I thought that if you didn't have surround speakers, then that would account for the missing dialog. If the commentary is intentionally out-of-phase, then a DPL circuit would route it to the surrounds. No surrounds, no commentary.



On 31-May-07, at 5:43 PM, Richard Hollandsworth wrote:

Yes, 10-in L/R, 7-in C, LS, RS (all DIY) and pair of vintage Altec VOTT 15-in SWs.
Matching Planar Magnetic Midranges and Ribbon Super-Tweeters.

But I frequently listen to just the 42-in Hitachi Plasma (large detachable speakers) plus an external 7-in "sub-woofer" I built as a separate section in the Center speaker.

holl_ands

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John Golitsis <jgolitsis@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Do you have surround speakers? Sorry if this has been covered already - I haven't been following this thread.


On 31-May-07, at 4:54 PM, Richard Hollandsworth wrote:

Further trolling on www.linearacoustic.com revealed yet another mechanism for "missing dialog", esp. during sports events...or with an overly aggressive
synthetic surround mix:
http://www.linearacoustic.com/sports/index.htm

Several music and sports broadcasts (incl. FOX) have been using SRS Circle Surround
encoding to synthetically "enhance" their ambience:
http://www.srslabs.com/pressarticle322.asp?sid=249
Which is why they sound "fake".......

The Stereo (Lt/Rt) downmix would contain an ample amount of anti- phase signals.
Linear Acoustic claims that the synthetic surround processors in some
TVs and AV Receivers somehow gets confused and nulls out the Center channel.

But, I've never "fixed" a missing dialog problem in a Stereo program by simply switching off my AV Receiver's PL-II synthetic surround mode....so go figure....

holl_ands



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