Audio Volume / Instant Watching

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Permalink Reply by wowwee123 on August 29, 2008 at 8:28am

I invite you to join the Instant Watch Treasure Hunters group.

I haven't had any problem with audio, maybe it's because I use a wireless headset and it's that much closer to the air, so I'm automatically making the volume lower.

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Permalink Reply by Spindaddydad on August 29, 2008 at 8:32am

I use IW via the Roku box and sometimes via laptop and have not experienced any problems with the volume level.

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Permalink Reply by Snow Owl on August 31, 2008 at 6:24pm

I'm fairly new to instant watch, but am having some issues with the volume. Watching Outbreak right now, listening on headphones, and even with the PC's volume control, the IW volume, and the headset's volume all three controls turned all the way up, some of the dialogue is barely audible.

It's true that I'm slightly hard of hearing, but not to the extent where I've ever been unable to hear the dialogue with the volume at max. Every other media player on my PC is perfectly audible and clear.

It wouldn't be such an issue if CC/subtitles were available. :(

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Permalink Reply by Mike on September 3, 2008 at 9:39pm

Wow, I thought it was just me... every time I watch one of these flicks, I'm constantly turning it up during the dialogue portions, and then turning it way down during any action/loud music sequences. It probably drives the rest of the house nuts, just listening to these constant shuffles, but it's better than blasting them into deafness (of which I too am suffering early onset, but nowhere near as bad with any other media).

Perhaps the compression algorithms they're using in their encoder does something funny with the sequences where there's just dialogue?

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Permalink Reply by Debra on September 3, 2008 at 11:41pm

As I understand it from a tech at Netflix, some older films have sound issues like you describe. However, my issue is with all films --some worse than others and those may be the older films.

When I hook up I use my TV as a monitor, my laptop hooked up with a monitor cable to the TV, and I have high-grade computer speakers, jacked to the computer, that I use for sound. I don't experience this issue with other "online feeds."

How are you downloading -- to a monitor or through S-Video?

D.

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Permalink Reply by wowwee123 on August 31, 2008 at 9:00pm

Check out the thread of - Instant Watch Titles that will expire on X date. (May-December, 2008). Have any titles in your Queue that you found to be expiring and is not already on the list, then please post to it.

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