I bought and installed ADTV HD yesterday. Before this, I was using TS HD for year and a half. I have Sony IV300 home theater.
Before I could rejoice with improved PQ and dolby surround quality on airtel, I encountered a strange issue. Whenever I switch from channel with non dolby audio to that with dolby audio, the audio just disappears. This happens randomly and audio comes back only after power resetting everything (TV, STB, HT).
This doesn't happen when I select stereo audio in STB but ofcourse, by doing this, I loose dolby audio altogether. I have not changed setup since Tata Sky HD (STB --> TV <--> HT). TV and HT are connected through HDMI ARC; set-top box and TV are connected by HDMI.
I tried alternative setup (STB --> HT <--> TV) but this too didn't work. In Tata Sky, I never faced this issue but when comes to audio, airtel STB is behaving completely different than TS in many ways. My HT is 5.1 channel. TS did allow me to set audio mode to dolby digital plus 7.1. In airtel, if I do same, HT throws an error of unsupported audio input. In airtel, if I set audio to dolby digital 5.1, HT shows message that dolby audio detected each time I switch to dolby audio supported channel from normal one (audio fails randomly at this point only). In TS, HT only showed this message only on a fresh start.
I had hard time explaining this issue to call center executive. They were asking me to try optical cable (I will try this option as a last resort. I doubt it will solve the problem as all DTH operators now a days support dolby through HDMI). In the end, they have agreed to send technician home. Lets see what happens.
PS: STB is HD HVEC, made by Technicolor (with new UI). TS STB was Huawei made.
I am suspecting that airtel is passing raw audio from broadcasters as it is and issue is arising somewhere when there is switch from normal to dolby audio on the go while switching channel. In TS, it looks like audio is processed as per setting in STB. If it is selected as dolby 5.1 in STB then STB outputs same (although counterfeit for non dolby channels) and hence there is no switching between audio formats on the go and hence I didn't get this issue earlier. Just my assumption.
Before I could rejoice with improved PQ and dolby surround quality on airtel, I encountered a strange issue. Whenever I switch from channel with non dolby audio to that with dolby audio, the audio just disappears. This happens randomly and audio comes back only after power resetting everything (TV, STB, HT).
This doesn't happen when I select stereo audio in STB but ofcourse, by doing this, I loose dolby audio altogether. I have not changed setup since Tata Sky HD (STB --> TV <--> HT). TV and HT are connected through HDMI ARC; set-top box and TV are connected by HDMI.
I tried alternative setup (STB --> HT <--> TV) but this too didn't work. In Tata Sky, I never faced this issue but when comes to audio, airtel STB is behaving completely different than TS in many ways. My HT is 5.1 channel. TS did allow me to set audio mode to dolby digital plus 7.1. In airtel, if I do same, HT throws an error of unsupported audio input. In airtel, if I set audio to dolby digital 5.1, HT shows message that dolby audio detected each time I switch to dolby audio supported channel from normal one (audio fails randomly at this point only). In TS, HT only showed this message only on a fresh start.
I had hard time explaining this issue to call center executive. They were asking me to try optical cable (I will try this option as a last resort. I doubt it will solve the problem as all DTH operators now a days support dolby through HDMI). In the end, they have agreed to send technician home. Lets see what happens.
PS: STB is HD HVEC, made by Technicolor (with new UI). TS STB was Huawei made.
I am suspecting that airtel is passing raw audio from broadcasters as it is and issue is arising somewhere when there is switch from normal to dolby audio on the go while switching channel. In TS, it looks like audio is processed as per setting in STB. If it is selected as dolby 5.1 in STB then STB outputs same (although counterfeit for non dolby channels) and hence there is no switching between audio formats on the go and hence I didn't get this issue earlier. Just my assumption.
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