Eagle Eye (sound issue)

dave_a · 10-10-2009, 9:20 PM

Was it just me or was the sound on Eagle Eye terrible? Loads of dropouts. I stopped watching the "live" version and went to anytime but that was the same.

Starburst · 10-10-2009, 11:42 PM

Recorded the Saturday morning broadcast but not watched it yet, like others a lot of recent Anytime stuff has been full of drops outs (Axmen, Truckers, Wild Russia) but SG:Universe p1 was perfect and p2 only two drop outs.
I still didn't fancy risking the anytime version and the box wasn't doing anything at the time, probably watch the movie tonight or tomorrow.

Just watched the first 10 mins, no dropouts on my 10am recording.

john connor · 17-10-2009, 9:45 PM

Hi, dave, the sound was terrible, i thought my amp was playing up, noticed this on a couple of other films as well, crap for the money we pay.

Starburst · 18-10-2009, 12:02 AM

Watched my recording in full earlier today and yeah there were a few drops outs but not enough to stop and record at a later date but there shouldn't be any at all since the delivery of 5.1 is not a new thing.

Good movie though, much better than I expected which is shown by leaving it on the hard drive for a week

Alphawao · 18-10-2009, 2:10 PM

Sound drop on my anytime version so I deleted it and rec Fri and Sound drops again......I thought my box was on the blink.

I got the 1st gen (is there a 2nd?) Thompson HD in 2007 and I've read about psu problems so could that be the cause?

Starburst · 18-10-2009, 4:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Alphawao

I got the 1st gen (is there a 2nd?) Thompson HD in 2007 and I've read about psu problems so could that be the cause?

I have the 2006 model with PSU update and recent Anytime recordings have ranged from perfect to annoying to awful in terms of dropouts. It's such a sporadic thing that I don't subscribe to the hardware theory rather a broadcast isssue but that's not to say there is something in the broadcast that isn't working correctly with the hardware.

Knyght_byte · 19-10-2009, 6:16 AM

I suspect this was definitely a bad production job (not the film but whoever compiled it for skys platform) as mine too was dropping out fairly often.

I think I went from a recorded version to anytime only to find it the same. Managed to watch but it did spoil it a bit.

tigermad · 20-01-2010, 12:27 PM

Watched this live last night and still loads of dropouts.