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I am experiencing frustration with a Motorola MX011ANM X1 cable box/dvr. All the audio is horribly compressed.
I see no option for turning off the dynamic range compression like there is on virtually every DVD or Blu Ray player ever made.
I understand they must compress so people can watch on any old TV without losing the dialog, but it really cheapens the home theater experience to the point of wanting to just throw the thing out the window.
Has anyone figured out if there is some on-line option or in-box option to turn it off? Is there some way to access uncompressed version of the programming from Xfinity on-demand instead? Some parameter to select in the customer profile/preferences? Anything at all to get around it?
Or have they actually done the unthinkable and applied the compression globally?

I see no option for turning off the dynamic range compression like there is on virtually every DVD or Blu Ray player ever made.
I understand they must compress so people can watch on any old TV without losing the dialog, but it really cheapens the home theater experience to the point of wanting to just throw the thing out the window.
Has anyone figured out if there is some on-line option or in-box option to turn it off? Is there some way to access uncompressed version of the programming from Xfinity on-demand instead? Some parameter to select in the customer profile/preferences? Anything at all to get around it?
Or have they actually done the unthinkable and applied the compression globally?