It could also be that somewhere in the increasingly convuloted path to your TV set, the audio is getting screwed up.
We upgraded several months ago to a mostly digital system at our TV station and there are stil bugs in the system: digital audio breakup mostly. But we've had several cases where audio was coming out of the wrong speakers.
In addition, there's still a battle over sound formats. Some programs are recorded in 5:1 (left, right, near right, far right, dialog : big whumping bass) while most TV stations are barely stereo. So instruments could be dropped out doing the transfer.
And when it gets to the TV station most engineers - if the station *has* any - are so overworked that if they just have sound and pictures hitting the air that's good enough.
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We upgraded several months ago to a mostly digital system at our TV station and there are stil bugs in the system: digital audio breakup mostly. But we've had several cases where audio was coming out of the wrong speakers.
In addition, there's still a battle over sound formats. Some programs are recorded in 5:1 (left, right, near right, far right, dialog : big whumping bass) while most TV stations are barely stereo. So instruments could be dropped out doing the transfer.
And when it gets to the TV station most engineers - if the station *has* any - are so overworked that if they just have sound and pictures hitting the air that's good enough.
-m