playdrv4me
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They're actually hocking this thing on HSN now. But I gotta say, even TVs like my high end Sony XBRs which DO have good audio are SUCH a pain in the ass to use without a surround system (which I don't want) when you want to sit down and enjoy a movie mixed in surround. The vocal track is ALWAYS so low as to be nearly worthless without cranking the volume up and then loud passages are too loud. If all this thing does is somehow analyze the audio coming from the cable box in real time and boost the vocal frequencies to match or exceed the surrounding frequencies I'd say it's not far off from being worth the 179.00 they were trying to get for it on HSN. I don't really know of anything else that is this simple (HDMI in and HDMI right back out) for the purpose of TV watching. And by doing it this way, it also means that my stereo audio system hooked up to the TV's optical out port will benefit from this conversion as well. I hope someone else copycats this and does it for 70 or 80 bucks, or as mentioned earlier in the thread, that they simply license the technology to the TV makers to add in to the TV itself. The downside of the current version is that you won't be able to enhance anything that comes from within the TV's own tuner or app suite.