Synchronizing TV Video and Audio on Cable

Recently, I had the need to reset my cable TV and audio settings on my TV due to some changes in total service package from my service supplier for those items. I got the colour settings on my TV set to my liking and chose the Movie setting since I liked that overall balance of contrast, brightness and saturation in my living room setting for the Samsung HDTV that is there.

But I had a little trouble setting the lag aka delay aka latency for the audio signal so the folks looked a little “drunk” when they were talking on the screen. So I found the delay adjustment option in my TV setup and went about to attempt to “sober” all the folks that were speaking to me as the audience. I first found Steve Harvey on Family Feud since the camera stays on him for more than just a few seconds unlike a lot of other shows that bounce around from one focus to another. But his facial features are such and his speaking manner with even the mild drawl, well it isn’t that easy to see if the delay value is set just right.

Well I found my savior for that particular task in the always enjoyable and easy on the eyes, Hazel Mae, who is the featured interviewer on the Blue Jays Central show that precedes all Toronto Blue Jays games on the Sportsnet Network. I’m really glad that Hazel is back in Toronto after her time in Boston because her take on all items relating to the Jays has a kind of trustworthy and believability to it due to how much voice inflection, dramatic enunciation and facial gestures that she uses in conveying the message she is sending to the audience. No doubt she graduated with really high marks in her voice training classes. Money well spent in my opinion.

And so it is very easy to see when the TV signal and the audio signal are in perfect sync when Hazel is the focused voice in any interview she does. Finding anything on the Internet to explain why this happens was not easy from the point of view of a simple explanation. It is basically that the two signals arrive at the TV together but the video goes through a conversion that creates this delay for the audio so it is often necessary to reset once the lag between the video processor and the audio signal. Buck Martinez or Jaimie Campbell will also do for that task but Hazel appeals more to my particular tastes.

“Yep Book is kinda’ more like an ol’ Silverado pick-up truck and Hayzel is one of them Acure-ah Sports Cee-dans. Jaimie always reminds me of how that kid in Family Affair as played by Johnny Whitaker would look like when he’s all grow’d up.”

I’m definitely sending this one to Hazel and I hope she gets a good laugh out of it. It was a lot of fun doing it. Best 15 minutes I’ve spent today (OK a little longer because the editing is a little tricky with the drawl guy). The story about my experience with the Rogers group of service bozos is still in the works and is now up to over 3,000+ words.

“Still awaitin’ for my Internet to be set up right and for the new modem to show up. Tay-vee is fine. George the tech guy was great but they din’t tell him squat about what needed to be fexed. They sent him up to bat aginst Justin V’lander bline-folded”

Y’all have a wunnerful day and especially you Hazel. Thank yah darlin’ for what you do.

(2^nd pitch of the game and Curtis Granderson parks it in the roof of the Houston's Minute Maid Park. “Book” is right if you watch baseball long enough you will see something you never saw before (sometimes even a good game takes place like tonight). Book is a great blend of southern charm (even though he is from California, still a good ole boy), baseball knowledge, humour and believability. Pat is sometimes a little annoying when he ends up repeating what “Book” just said and the occasional omission of an “s” on some words. I’ve tried to find anything on the Internet to try to understand what that is all about—a speech impediment, a recognition problem. Just trying to be helpful and not judge.

I have a better understanding of dyslexia (that’s not what he is doing, at least I don’t think so) after asking folks with that as part of their make-up about what it is like to live with it and how they adjust to it. Already wrote a couple stories about that. I’m sad to say that one of the featured folks left us at the age of 19 due to a heart malady but he left a mark even in his short time with us.

It’s a lot harder to write without the assistance of Internet availability. I had to go back to locate some information that was not coming out of the old pea brain that I have up there. Lots of folks call it failing memory. That’s not the case for most. It really is about all the stuff that gets shoved into the pea over the years and there is only so much room on that bulletin board. Just like the grocery store bulletin board, it’s there somewhere but takes a lot longer to find it.

Rogers, sometime this week is not showing much commitment to a longtime customer.

(…and Gibby ends up being the soft-spoken quiet genius in that game. Starting Grich and Granderson, moving Grich to right field in the ninth, making the bullpen changes at the right time and place in the game. Pretty much how you manage the boys you have that aren’t on the shelf. I smell extended winning streak but they are in tough still in Houston. “Yep not to many cream puffs in them boys”)

And finally my modem showed up and I installed it myself and allowed me to get the pics for this story (a day before Rogers said it would arrive). Magic. Nope it’s called covering your behind with armour. If it arrives earlier than you say it will, then you can’t get in trouble. I call it lying. People have lives and try to stay home to be there for deliveries but they also have lives and they can’t be home every day waiting for a modem.