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Triptych

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My elderly and rather deaf aunts have just bought themselves a new TV. However even when the volume is turned up to the maximum it's too quiet for one of them too hear. The volume would be fine for anyone without hearing difficulties, but I have to admit that the maximum isn't particularly loud.

Does anyone know if there is a fairly inexpensive way of increasing the volume? And no, they're not prepared to consider using the subtitle feature.
 
Don't know about other models, but mine has a series of small buttons tucked away around the back, two of which control the volume settings. You can set that as loud or quiet as you want as a base and then use the handset to adjust as necessary.
 
My current laptop has the same problem Triptych but its volume apparently cannot be increased unless I was willing to add speakers/amplifiers. Is it too late to take the tv back and swap it for another? You should tell them though the subtitles are ace, particularly if your listening to a programme with barely comprehensible regional accents.
 
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How about hearing aids?

Seriously, though, digital earphones work. We ended up getting some for my father whose hearing became iffy as he got older and the sound was so loud we were worried the neighbours would complain. Once he had the earphones on it was bliss (for us).

There may be a way of adjusting the sound in the set-up menu although if someone with good hearing reckons it's not that loud with the volume up full it may be a technical problem that justifies returning it for a refund or repair.
 
Is the TV plugged straight into the aerial, or is there a Sky or cable box involved? If its the latter, you might be able to bump up the volume from there (certainly Sky boxes allow you to boost the output volume).
 
My dad is deaf & wears two hearing aids, he used to have the tv so loud we could sit at the bottom of the garden & hear it!

A couple of years ago he had some fitted in the living room, I think it was called a "Loop" it basicly means he can hear the tv loudly through his hearing aid but the tv is at a normal volume for everyone one else, not sure if thats any help to you

Helen
 
I think hearing aids would be the way to go, however they are both adamant that there is nothing wrong with their hearing and that hearing aids are not needed. One of them is almost completely deaf and is still insistent that her hearing is perfectly adequate. They are a pair of stubborn old buggers, they won't consider hearing aids, earphones, subtitles - anything that suggests 'weakness' really!
 
Must be the same generation as my father. He was convinced there was nothing wrong with his hearing and gave us the impression he only wore the headphones to indulge us.
 
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