I and various acquaintances are experiencing serious problems with TV sound. The bottom line is that it is heading toward unintelligible. I have spoken with many dealers, senior persons within the audio industry and Meridian dealers. I get responses ranging from incredulity to hesitant acknowledgement that the problem is well know and one might as well get on with it and spend �10-�20K on a surround sound set costing three times the price of the original TV.

Sound bars I am told are selling like hot cakes. The head of a large chain of audio distributors told me he never hears TV sound because he has spent �7K on a Bose system. He does however know his customers are not getting the sound quality that they should from the TV�s he sells them.

The problems occur with currently transmitted films and DVD output which is mostly I think in Dolby 5.1.
The links below suggest there is an industry problem associated with embedded codecs (allegedly).
Problems with Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound on Freeview HD
and
BBC - Questions around surround sound on Freeview HD

The second link suggests that the BBC knows there is a problem. I am so far short of anyone wishing to own the problem. Whilst I am resigned to spending some more cash on better equipment I would like to get to the real truth behind a lot of obfuscation.

Can anyone oblige or even suggest a solution?

Last edited by Carl; 2013-01-25 09:32. Reason: Long URL replaced with URL tag and description.
System 1. AVI S21 amplifier, Meridian 504 tuner, Meridian 218 zone controller, ATC SCM35 passive speakers.
System 2. HUMAX Freesat Foxsat receiver, Pioneer PDP427XD Plasma TV, UHD722,Apple TV, G61RSL, AC12, DSP3300 centre, 2 X DSP5000 96/24 Smileys.