There's another inherent problem with Dish's "volume leveling software". It levels out the dynamic range deliberately built into the motion picture soundtrack.
In metered testing with four different feeds on HBO HD - same movie done a minimum of two times - with the volume leveling software enabled, the dynamic range deliberately created by the sound engineer is now compressed by the new volume leveling software when that software is enabled.
While there may be some who desire the effect of a single volume level, it is not what the sound engineers had in mind when the soundtrack of the motion picture was mixed, and, in my humble opinion, constitutes an illegal edit of the motion picture.
Some of us have paid a great deal of money for, and spent a lot of time properly balancing our sound equipment to our environments so we can both view and hear motion pictures as they were intended by the director, cinematographer, and sound engineers to be seen and heard. To have Dish Network introduce a product meant to "normalize" commercial content audio levels, which wrecks havoc with motion picture soundtracks, is a truly undesirable side-effect.
Please feel free to attack, but we watch so little content with commercials that I have disabled the sound leveling software on all receivers.
Unfortunately, we must pay for the more than 200 channels with commercials so we can watch the premium channels and the only four (4) channels left on satellite and cable which do not yet have commercial content. What a sad statement on the television industry in general.
