"Justified" on FX HD - Page 38

They were marked bills by the US Treasury.

Not marked per say But they were flagged by s/n bills , all currency now is scanned (even @ the ATM level) by computers . With terrorism & drug cartels, the US is using this to track illegal money laundering .

That was a very good read, and as you noted, very mildly spoilerish but not enough to spoil my enjoyment of the show.

Just a complete aside...

I've noticed VERY LOW AUDIO LEVELS on "Justified" this season. Since "Nip/Tuck" and "Rescue Me" disappeared aside from "Archer" I don't watch anything else on FXHD.

Here in TWC/LA the audio level for "Justified" has been EXTREMELY LOW. I've had to turn my AVR's volume control up to 15 to listen "acceptably", whereas the normal volume level for everything else could be somewhere in the -3 to +6 range.

I've spoken with the FX Networks "Broadcast Operations" people here in LA, and they have done their own investigation... trying to determine if the problem is local, national, or something specific to TWC's infrastructure (either just here in LA or nationally) or also impacting Comcast, FIOS, etc.

They've certainly confirmed (on their own home systems) that the audio IS low (perhaps 5db lower than expected), so that's the good news. Now the issue is where is the cause. They've also confirmed that it is NOT from their network broadcast center that is fed to the cable systems which is where the signal level problem is originating. It all looks good to them, on the true source side.

Last year we here in TWC/LA went through a similar story with "Justified" (at least it coincided to last year's season) where there was some kind of infrastructure/STB problem with the DD5.1 metadata from FXHD, that impacted hardware performance. The TWC/LA solution was literally to disable DD5.1 on FXHD for a while, delivering only DD2.0 stereo. I reported this last year, and after about 3-4 weeks TWC/LA finally repaired their problem and returned FXHD DD5.1 audio.

So the people at FX Networks here in LA suspect the same type of thing might be happening right now, with again something caused by TWC/LA or some other misinterpretation of the DD5.1 metadata being somehow responsible for the very low audio level. I had a long conversation which the chief technician at FX yesterday and he's very much on top of this problem, which is very real here in TWC/LA.


Anybody else notice this too? If so, where are you, and what is your cable system?

In other words, I'm curious as to whether this is a unique TWC/LA problem or a national one... perhaps with TWC nationally? Comcast as well, or not?

Must be your cable system, I don't think the audio is different for Justified than Sons of Anarchy, frex. We keep the volume up at same level for both. Comcast in the ATL here.

Same here as in ATL , all is fine , SF Bay Area> DirecTV

Yeah I read that this morning & it was a little too much info so I quit 1/3 of way thru ...

Raylan's scene with Arlo. My impression that the old coot has Alzheimer's or some other dementia type issue, the classic behaviors being...first talking to himself as if Helen were there, then looking for misplaced items that were "stolen" or mysteriously moved by someone else and finally saying that Raylan will run to Helen (present future tense, not past) like he always does. Don't think Arlo may be long for the series, especially given that Mr Detroit has the geezer on his radar.

That's a good point.

The Arlo situation regarding his dementia is explained in the article I linked to. Hints were laid in a past season by Helen. If you don't want to read it, then I'll assure you that it will be cleared up shortly...not his future, but what is happening. My late father-in-law had the exact same condition with the exact same symptoms.

I'm fine with grasping the details from the aired shows, not future information. And as pointed out by philw1776 in his post and your reminder that "Hints were laid in a past season by Helen" is good enough.

I'll read the article after the season. I'm allergic to spoilers. I break out in hives and get a type of Tourette's thing happening when information is disclosed prior to broadcast.

The article is a weekly Q&A about the current episode with GYs comments on what's happening currently. The interviewer asks questions about this character or that, about future appearances or dangling threads and Yost will reply we'll address that in Eps. 7,8 and 9 or 10-12. Not much else. He's done one for each ep. He also comments on the character's state of mind, currently, etc. and refers back to earlier seasons. It's very mildly spoilerific. You get an idea of when something or someone will be addressed, but not what. I guess that's probably too much for your taste, but for some not so much.

Yeah, I read it and didn't feel like anything got spoiled. He addressed no specific future revelations or events. It was really a pretty good read in terms of understanding some of the finer plot points and character motivations. It did make me think one of my theories may be incorrect though.

Got a call back this morning from the FX Network guy here in LA. PROBLEM FIXED!!

One of their technicians went home last night with a Dolby meter (he happens to live near me here in TWC/LA area) and discovered that the dialnorm value on FXHD was -31. This is not what it is supposed to be, which is -24.

This morning they called the proper party over at TWC/LA and they discovered the "culprit". I didn't quite get all the details but it was apparently a piece of mis-configured hardware (or software?), perhaps having been swapped in for some prior failing component.

Anyway the new "item" was substituting -31 for the FX-provided -24 dialnorm value, resulting in the observed audio level loss of at least 5db. Once the TWC/LA engineers were aware of the source of the problem they quickly corrected it, and the guys at FX were able to immediately see the results. It's now at -24 where it should have been.

This was affecting all FXHD content (and possibly other channels and content as well?) here in LA. I will pay close attention to "Archer" tonight, and then of course "Justified" next Tuesday.

So... case would seem to be closed. Problem caused locally here by TWC/LA. Now fixed.

FX did also check for the problem in another Comcast area somewhere, and it didn't exist there. Spot on -24 as sent out by FX. So it was obviously just some issue specifically involving the local TWC/LA head-end that has now been repaired.

Certainly pays to have the right Rolodex.

Cool! Next up you guys can help out at CERN with that equipment problem where the neutrinos erroneously seem to exceed the speed of light!

Awesome job. I had a similar experience, Rolodex wise several years ago. Local ABC affiliate wasn't showing (at all) a regularly scheduled syndicated show I liked. Syndicator was Buena Vista.

Being a long-term stock investor I just looked up Disney's phone number in my stock book. Two rings, one transfer, two more rings and problem solved. They even wanted my contact info in case their "legal team" needed to contact me I'm guessing the local affiliate got a good talking to.

As all the posts about this week's episode attest, it was terrific. After last week's show, which had some of the weakest dialog I can remember, the writing team brought its A game this week. It was a delight from beginning to end.

I bought Winona's decision to leave Raylan, again. After all, she is pregnant and Raylan proved, again, that he was so caught up in his work, he wouldn't even take time to look at houses with her. As Winona herself observed in this week's episode, though, they do love each other so maybe love will prevail in the end.

I really like William Mapother, who played the pimp who Raylan had to bring down a notch or two. Mapother is Tom Cruise's cousin, but is nevertheless a fine actor. I hope we get to see more of him. He is a perfect example of a typical Elmore Leonard lowlife.

Like everybody else, I have no idea what the situation is with the guy that Quarles has so casually trussed up in a bedroom in his home-office, or whatever it is. As another poster has already noted, like Win, I'm not sure I want to know. Speaking of Quarles home-office, what is the deal with the eye chart on the kitchen wall next to the microwave? Anyway, along with Southland, I think Justified is the best show on television right now.

Not really familiar with him, but a quick IMDB scan showed ~5 Cruise movies

He also played Ethan on Lost I believe, the first 'Other' that they ran across.

That's what I immediately thought when I saw him. And now that some mentioned that he's a cousin of Tom Cruise I can see the resemblance.

When "Ethan" first showed up on LOST, he was an "Other" with, apparently, super-strengh. Very cool. Then we find out he's just a DHARMA doctor. One of about, oh, 3,000 things they never explained.

They say that the equipment problem would actually mean the neutrinos would of actually been going faster then the previously reported because the loose connection would of reported a slower speed compared to if it was connected correctly.

I thought right away that there's some type of Pulp Fiction-gimp thing going on with Quarles the first time I saw the tied up guy. The weird way we he commented in this ep in response to being called "boss" kind of confirmed what I thought.

No they did not say that. They said the opposite. The loose connector is either garbled reporting or BS. Either the fiber optic cable length as installed turned out to be wrong OR they used the incorrect velocity of light propagation in the cable. Light travels slightly slower through a medium than in a vacuum.

Yeah, Quarles is a real sociopath, a big-time sadist. McDonough is so nailing this role. This show really casts well.

I thought right away that there's some type of Pulp Fiction-gimp thing going on with Quarles the first time I saw the tied up guy.

The first time I noticed the guy, his purpose seemed ambiguous. Now it's pretty obvious.

Hmmm the article I have says the opposite. Oh well, they are planning a re-test so we will see.

You are correct.

I've now seen an article that confirms your statement. And there's another with the opposite effect. Key is recalibration and re-test.

Sorry for off-topic.

I appreciate the link and hope to get to it after the season but yes, it's too much for my tastes right now

Still haven't figured out the tied up guy in the bedroom. Did I miss it?