Sophon Cable

[gharknes]

anyone notice a problem with distorted sound on bloomberg last few days or so.

[begsaresponse]

anyone notice a problem with distorted sound on bloomberg last few days or so.

No more than usual. The picture and sound quailty of Sophon is crap!

[libya 115]

There are often slight problems with Sophon sound and picture. I use the 'fine tune' function on the TV set-up with the remote control until it improves.

[Humphrey Bear]

anyone notice a problem with distorted sound on bloomberg last few days or so.

No more than usual. The picture and sound quailty of Sophon is crap!

So you think the content is OK, then????

Tonight there's rugby on the Aussie channel, tomorrow also.

That's it. Full stop. Nothing else worth watching.

[libya 115]

anyone notice a problem with distorted sound on bloomberg last few days or so.

No more than usual. The picture and sound quailty of Sophon is crap!

So you think the content is OK, then????

Tonight there's rugby on the Aussie channel, tomorrow also.

That's it. Full stop. Nothing else worth watching.

What about......??

1. BBC World

2. CNN

3. Fox News

4. Bloomberg Business

5. Pattaya City News Channel

6. Zone Reality Channel

7. New Explorer Channel

8. Real Madrid T.V. Channel

9. National (Indian) shows live cricket

10. Eurosport (Lots of live tennis and athletics)

11. mnet series

12. Australia Network

13. NHK (Japanese) (50% programmes in Japlish)

14. Channel News Asia (English language news and business)

[Humphrey Bear]

anyone notice a problem with distorted sound on bloomberg last few days or so.

No more than usual. The picture and sound quailty of Sophon is crap!

So you think the content is OK, then????

Tonight there's rugby on the Aussie channel, tomorrow also.

That's it. Full stop. Nothing else worth watching.

What about......??

1. BBC World

2. CNN

3. Fox News

4. Bloomberg Business

5. Pattaya City News Channel

6. Zone Reality Channel

7. New Explorer Channel

8. Real Madrid T.V. Channel

9. National (Indian) shows live cricket

10. Eurosport (Lots of live tennis and athletics)

11. mnet series

12. Australia Network

13. NHK (Japanese) (50% programmes in Japlish)

14. Channel News Asia (English language news and business)

I do not receive 7, 8 or 10.

In fact we had a problem with Sophon when I was last home (November) and the guy came round to fix it. He was carefully re-tuning all channels when I stopped him, as he had four successive channels showing the same wrestling match. The set has never been the same since.

Don't want reality shows; don't want cricket, after England's tour of Oz; don't like eurosport; I work with the bluddy Nips, I don't need lessons in Jinglish; so I watch Boomerang with my daughter or Thai 7 with my wife.

In Saudi I have the choice of fifteen channels on the Aramco cable, BBC News and 14 arabic channels, all of which show pictures of the Grand Mosque at prayer time. Used to work in Libya, where 'International' antennae were banned. Gaddafi 1 and Gaddafi 2 only. So I consider myself an expert on crap TV.

[Nam Plah]

anyone notice a problem with distorted sound on bloomberg last few days or so

I have some experience with radio and tv broadcasting and electronics and I know exactly what you mean about the audio distortion.

It isn't limited to Bloomberg either.

Many programs are ruined by audio signal overload. There seems to be a lack of:

Compression and Limiting

Filtering

Line Impedence Matching

Automatic Volume Controlling

I suspect it is due to a "hot" signal being fed into the equivilent of a microphone preamp input.

If one takes a hot, pre-amped audio signal like that coming from an IPod and plugs it into the "Microphone" instead of the "Line" input on a home PC soundcard the resulting audio is similarly distorted.

Considering that Sophon is celebrating 20 years of programming one might assume that they have some technical expertise in the area of broadcasting.

If your TV has an equaliser function you might try filtering the audio to suit your ears and minimize the offending frequencies.