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others in the home are sleeping, or in an apartment building when neighbors are
at home and prefer not to be disturbed.
Simply turning the volume down may not be an adequate solution in these cases,
as it may make dialog so quiet as to be unintelligible, and obscure important but
subtle cues in the soundtrack. The answer makes use of some specific informa-
tion provided by Dolby Digital (AC-3) soundtracks to provide some degree of
compression to reduce the dynamic range to something more appropriate to the
environment. Since this feature depends on information only available within
AC-3 soundtracks, it is only available when the AVP is decoding AC-3.
The
late night feature may be toggled on and off on by using the special button
on the remote control (see Using the Special Menu); this item on the volume
preference
menus determines how much compression is used. Your choices are
either low or high levels of compression, which may be selected according to
what works best in your particular situation.