Delayed Sound DSTV

[Chris_SA]

Is anyone else experiencing this.

the sounds is delayed so when someone is speaking the sound comes through a couple of split seconds later.

I phoned multichoice and they said that i should reset my decoder and that WILL fix the problem. Well after the 10th time that I did the reset Crap still the same problem.

Anyone else having this problem and what can I do?

 

[The_Pumpkin_King]

light travels faster than sound

 

[Hogrod]

I find it happens sometimes to me and I can only imagine it's some technical problem on their end where the syncing of the sound to the visuals is off by a fraction. How often is it happening?

 

[<moLe>]

Hmm...what decoder do you have? If its one of those oldder non responsive decoders then I'll blame it, but this is just me guessing really

 

[Tamagotchi]

Also getting it.Very often. Not all channels.

 

[Chris_SA]

yeah it is not on all channels, but does it a lot with mnet and SABC channels, experienced it a couple of times on national geographic wild as well. no the decoder is brand new, 3 months old so can't be that.

don't want to call them again because only solution from their side is to RESET!

 

[Celfone]

If I can offer a dumb suggestion.

Have your installer recheck your installation because just maybe there is something mis-aligned to the satelite perhaps????

I am no expert but who knows it could be that the signal(s) are not picked up clearly or something.

 

[Milano]

Which decoder?

 

[davemc]

Are you perhaps playing the sound through a separate amp?

 

[Capesharks]

i am also finding this a royal pain.. i have the HD pvr and the ONLY thing i watch on HD are the sporting events where you don't really need voice/video sync.. Sometimes also on m-net of the 103 channel... i have tinkered with the Delay function on the PVR itself in the menu, and also tried top delay the sound through my amp... i thought i was the optical cable being too "fast" and went back to the old trusty cables.. but it's Exactly the same... ggrrrrrrrrrrr reset my @s

 

[Milano]

i am also finding this a royal pain.. i have the HD pvr and the ONLY thing i watch on HD are the sporting events where you don't really need voice/video sync.. Sometimes also on m-net of the 103 channel... i have tinkered with the Delay function on the PVR itself in the menu, and also tried top delay the sound through my amp... i thought i was the optical cable being too "fast" and went back to the old trusty cables.. but it's Exactly the same... ggrrrrrrrrrrr reset my @s

The HD-PVR is horse manure http://forum.dstv.com/showthread.php?t=3015

 

[Capesharks]

Milano, to be honest, the sound synch is the ONLY problem i have with the HDPvr.... The abilitly to expand the HDD later will be nice, as with the internet connection function, but other than that.. i love the thing...

 

[Milano]

There are still other unresolved issues BUT the lip sync problem is MAJOR. If you are blind or deaf then I would highly recommend it

 

[donquioxte]

as far as i know it's got to do with how they relay the satellite feed.nothing more than a bit of technical incompetence in correcting the sometimes unsynchronised single received from the satellite.

 

[Chris_SA]

Which decoder?

It is just a standard dstv decoder

Are you perhaps playing the sound through a separate amp?

nope, the sound is only playing through my TV

 

[genetic]

Changing channels and then going back to the channel I was watching usually solves the problem.