Sound on feature films

How are you getting your feed for the film channels ? 

Are you using sky ?

Freesat ? 

Normal house aerial ?

You may need to turn down the bass and turn the treble up.

We don't have any special film channels, just Freeview, but this problem exists even on the HD freeview, DVD and Blu-ray playback.  Picture quality is excellent and so is the sound from say a documentary.

Is the Freeview built in to the tv ? 

Or is it a seperate box ?

Is the dvd / BlueRay player seperate or built in ?

I can't speak from experience, but I understand on new TVs which are getting thinner and thinner the quality of the sound in relation to the picture quality leaves a lot to be desred. Therefore it is prudent to get better quality speakers as seperate items.

Hello John,

With so many different systems in the market it simply not possible to give exact instructions, but buried somewhere in the equipments menus will be some features that will allowyou to adjust variuous aspects of the sound. 

Either get you 5 year old grandson to sort it for you  or take the risk of being laughed at in the pub and look in theh instructions. Failing that talk to your supplier.

In December we bought a new Smart TV, after weeks of looking and listening to numerous TV's sound and picture quality in the £800 to £1100 region we found that Samsung offered the best picture quality and sound.  I annoyed many store staff playing with the sound and settings and then walking away three rows from the set to check out how picture and sound was. My money so I only part with it when the product is up to scratch.
But Prof is correct you need to make sure you have got fully in to the setting for optimum performance. Our son bought a theatre sound system and took it back within the stores returns period after he found speakers that "fizzed and popped" ( ??) and then bought a better system elsewhere for less money.

We had a Toshiba and the sound was crap. No amount of tweaking would correct and others tried as well. it was only 2 years old so gave it to our grandaughter and while reading reviews and looking at customer feedback online I went for the LG LED Smart TV. The sound quality is 100% better than the Toshiba and I haven't had to tweak it. Infact the whole system is more user friendly and the LED backlit picture is what persuaded me to buy it in the first place. Like someone else said, to get a perfect audio experience you will need a surround sound system.

Incidentally the salesman told me that the day before he had taken back in a Toshiba set that a customer had brought back because of the poor sound. I can only explain it as if people had buckets on their heads whilst talking. All the reviews and feedback I read about Toshiba mentioned the poor sound.

Last week there was an article in the Express saying about the poor sound quality on modern films compared to years gone by so maybe this is also a factor.

Good "theatre" systems can actually make it worse - the sound is recorded at specific levels and transmitted digitally but because a good theatre system will have better speakers than TVs it's the mid-range and bass that will benefit most, but these are the very frequencies that film makers use to make things more dramatic.

I love listening to rock music programmes, eg Glastonbury, through our theatre system but for normal TV that would be unbearable so I just use it's normal speakers with the bass turned down.

Isn't the LG a rebranded Goodmans?  We have a LG in the bedroom and no issues with it.