I have Time Warner Cable and I always have my volume levels set very high (in the eighties, on a scale of 1 - 100) just to hear it, when I play a dvd, the levels are set to normal, so it is not my tv . Is this common? 
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I don't know about that, but commercials are definitely significantly louder than the programs.
I have Cablevision, not Time-Warner, and my problem like Rich's, is that the commercials come on blasting, even when the show is only at normal volume.
I have a hearing problem, so my wife is constantly asking me to turn it down.
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this has been going on for a long time, as I remember nodding off to a midnight movie only to be jarred out of my skull
by the volume increase for the ads, this was in the early 70's!
Go to the digital sound settng in the cable box from your remote, look for -wide normal and narrow. If you are using the TV's speaker-select normal or narrow. If you have trouble I can map out the menu choices step by step.
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My tv/ cable box is set to the narrow level.
My wife "thinks" I have a hearing problem, but I don't think it is related to the TV
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Are you using the volume control from the TV or the cable box? (not which remote)
Zowie!
I never thought to look at the cable box volume control! Much better results now! Thank you Jim!Zowie!
No problemo, all the victims of Time Warner need to stick together.
No problemo, all the victims of Time Warner need to stick together.
QFT.
They'll do anything they can to make the experience a pain.
Which, while unfortunate and annoying..makes for a great window to reduce your price.
Unfortunate for them!
I have Time Warner Cable and I always have my volume levels set very high (in the eighties, on a scale of 1 - 100) just to hear it, when I play a dvd, the levels are set to normal, so it is not my tv . Is this common?
You need to change the volume level on your cable box to the MAX. You can do this in the settings. It may have reverted during a power outage. You should then be able to set your tv to reasonable levels.
Thats what I was going to say. Looks like you are in Cleveland too. I had TW for a while before I cut my cable all together. If I would turn off the box, or the power would go out, the volume on the box itself would go to 50%. I'd finally realize it when I was cranking up the TV volume.
Cable? What's Cable?!!
About ten years ago they started laying tv cable here in Cheltenham. They started on the tattier areas of town where there would be a guaranteed uptake of the expensive packages. They slowly headed my way (on the wrong edge of a better area) but stopped three streets away.
Ever since then I've been getting letters from the cable company exhorting me to take up their offers of tv/phone/broadband packages. I always say yes and they seem to get excited for a week then tell me I can't have it!
Similar thing happened to a friend of mine when we were in a supermarket the other day. She was approached by salesmen trying to get people t change to their gas and electricity company. She led them on nicely for a while until it got to her address - a narrowboat on a nearby canal. Never seem a salesman's face drop so fast!
Back to the original post. I have an old DVD player with the same problem. I wonder if there's a volume control on it somewhere I've not found? Must look.
Gareth
About ten years ago they started laying tv cable here in Cheltenham. They started on the tattier areas of town where there would be a guaranteed uptake of the expensive packages. They slowly headed my way (on the wrong edge of a better area) but stopped three streets away.
Ever since then I've been getting letters from the cable company exhorting me to take up their offers of tv/phone/broadband packages. I always say yes and they seem to get excited for a week then tell me I can't have it!
Similar thing happened to a friend of mine when we were in a supermarket the other day. She was approached by salesmen trying to get people t change to their gas and electricity company. She led them on nicely for a while until it got to her address - a narrowboat on a nearby canal. Never seem a salesman's face drop so fast!
Back to the original post. I have an old DVD player with the same problem. I wonder if there's a volume control on it somewhere I've not found? Must look.
Gareth
Car stereos can have a setting for consistent volume, why haven't they figured it out for TVs yet?
Many T.Vs do have a setting where the sound is supposedly equalized but that's limited to the internal speakers and the minimal sound from the set.
I have Direct T.V and there is a huge difference in sound from channel to channel. Commercials are much louder and Commercials for Direct T.V are the loudest of them all.
I have Direct T.V and there is a huge difference in sound from channel to channel. Commercials are much louder and Commercials for Direct T.V are the loudest of them all.
