Needed a break so I sat down to watch "Super 8" on BlueRay last night (just newly released). A brilliant movie directed by JJ Abrams. Loved the cinamatic scenes, direction, story, anamorphic blue streaks (think star trek), visually stunning. And a happy ending.
Then the problem. Massive changes in volume of the audio track. Dialog was VERY quiet and then came the explosions and gun shots nearly shaking the house down. So you had to turn up the volume enough just to hear what was being said followed by extremily loud effects. That can't be right.
What i did notice is the audio track is encoded using Dolby 7.1 whereas my audio setup is a simple left/right from the bluray player to a stereo amp. Is that the problem? Im thinking maybe i need a decoder to get the correct level mix. But what a shocker, i like realism but when you see an explosion, you dont really want the roof to cave in.
Open to thoughts...
Paul.
Then the problem. Massive changes in volume of the audio track. Dialog was VERY quiet and then came the explosions and gun shots nearly shaking the house down. So you had to turn up the volume enough just to hear what was being said followed by extremily loud effects. That can't be right.
What i did notice is the audio track is encoded using Dolby 7.1 whereas my audio setup is a simple left/right from the bluray player to a stereo amp. Is that the problem? Im thinking maybe i need a decoder to get the correct level mix. But what a shocker, i like realism but when you see an explosion, you dont really want the roof to cave in.
Open to thoughts...
Paul.