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is there a dialogue normalization function on your panasonic BD player?

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In Reply to: RE: Is it just me, or is the sound better on Blu-Ray discs vs. regular DVD's? posted by The Real Dick Hertz on January 13, 2010 at 07:16:55

maybe it is turned on by default.
supposedly it makes dialogue heard clearly over louder action sounds.

but it achieves this by compressing the entire sound track - that's why on your BD player, louder sounds are not that louder, and lower level details are heard more easily.

there's a catch of course. poorer sound fidelity overall....

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their license now forbids it - Joe Murphy Jr 09:22:57 01/14/10 (0)
You probably meant Dynamic Range Control , but just in case, Dolby's license now forbits all CE equipment from having access to altering the Dialog Normalization feature. Most soundtracks on DVD and Blu-ray use about 4dB of normalization (should show up as -4dB) when a Dolby soundtrack is being played. This is the default setting for the Dolby encoder: the audio engineer has to program the encoder to disable normalization if he doesn't want to use it. Dolby's implementation is ass-backwards.

Years ago, a few manufacturers actually had receivers/processors that allowed an adjustment to be made to Dialog Normalization. Dolby didn't appreciate this work-around and added the clause that, to be certified by Dolby and obtain a license, CE products must not alter Dialog Normalization coefficients. The normalization data presides in the metadata of the stream. There is a member at AVS Forum who states that his computer software player allows him to disable Dialog Normalization, so perhaps there is a work-around for this unneeded feature that Dolby has dumped on consumers.
No, but there is a dynamic range control. Mine is "off". nt - The Real Dick Hertz 06:53:05 01/14/10 (0)
nt

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