DVD WOES!!!!!!!!ARGGGGHHHH!!!!!

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Ok everyone. Got my DVD player. Had some problems with the picture. Fixed the problem. BUT..........now I seem to have inferior sound!!! All my Cathe DVD's now are being projected at about 50% of the sound volume that my VHS's were at. Meaning, if I keep the volume on my TV at the same level, I can barely hear Cathe now. Even on max volume, the DVD is not loud enough!!! Do I need new wires?? Did I get a cheapie DVD player?? ANYONE know what gives???


Also...gotta sneak one other question in here!!:):) Do you think there is *ANY* benefit to doing all exercises with 3lb. dumbells?? Even if you are a beginner?? I have a friend who insists on using 3-5lb. dumbells on EVERYTHING including squats and one arm rows!!! Any benefit at all?? (I am trying to convince her otherwise!)

Thanks guys!!

Janice
 
Janice,
Is it only your Cathe DVD's that have sound problems? (If those are the only DVD's you have, get thee to a Blockbuster, rent a good DVD, and see how it sounds!)
I had problems with my Cathe DVD's when I first got my DVD player, until I played around with the setup feature. On my remote there is a button called setup. When you press it, there are options, one of which is "audio". I click on audio, and there are several selections to choose from. I can choose bitstream, 6 channel (?) , something else, and PCM. I don't know what any of them mean, but the only one that works with my Cathe DVD's is PCM (even though my receiver is set up for bitstream.) As long as PCM is selected, the sound is fine. If not, the volume is very low, and goes lower every time Cathe claps. Very strange.
I hope this will help with your problem...
Wendy
 
I've got the same problem!
All of my DVDs play at a lower volume than the VCR or regular TV. My sister's is the same way. She hooked her DVD player up to surround sound to make it loud enough. Good luck.
 
My Cathe dvds also sound lower. I'll have to check my dvd's setup.

About weights:

I am presently doing all my squats and lunges without any weights (MIS and PH). I find that my body is "weight" enough for my legs right now while I build stamina and strength (post baby 5 months). There is nothing wrong with working out with 3 to 5 lbs weights. As your friend gets stronger, she will find that she must increase her weight to make her workouts more challenging...and, it is the best way to begin a Cathe weight workout if you are a weight lifting beginner. :)



Blessings from Our Home to Yours, Runathon
 
Ok, yeah, I know you guys!! 3-5 lbs for squats could be considered reasonable only because of your own body weight. BUT 3-5 lbs for one arm lat rows???? Would you even FEEL that?? I am just trying to tell her that for some exercises, you really should go a little heavier. (I just want them to be as sore as me:):)

Still have not figured out DVD. Will try to tommorrow, jeez I hope i am not SOL!! Oh, I will be SO mad, cuz I need LOUD volume with Cathe!!!! Thanks everyone....

Janice
 
Oh my God -I have the same problem and have posted here before to get help. One theory may be that the DVD is connected through the VCR and that's why VCR is louder. It's driving me crazy too and I'm so afraid to unplug any thing and rearrange for fear of loosing all sound. I asked this before on another thread and got no response, but does anyone think if I get a receiver this will help. The DVD has five speakers and surround, but again its connected through VCR. Hope someone can help.
 
Hi Mar!

I take it that if your DVD player is hooked up through your VCR that you don't have anyplace at the back of the TV to hook it up? We had to get a little box (I can't remember what it is called) that hooked up to the back of the TV and then we ran the DVD and VCR through that. Sound has always been good. You can get this little box at Circuit City or Best Buy.

Janice! I had sound problems with one of my Cathe DVDs. When I switched my TV from surround sound to regular, the volume changed and the sound was fine.

As far as how heavy your friend should go, perhaps as heavy as she is comfortable. Hopefully she will recognize when it is time to go heavier and she will heavy up.

Hope this helped....

Vickie
 
>Ok, yeah, I know you guys!! 3-5 lbs for squats could be
>considered reasonable only because of your own body weight.
>BUT 3-5 lbs for one arm lat rows???? Would you even FEEL
>that?? I am just trying to tell her that for some exercises,
>you really should go a little heavier. (I just want them to be
>as sore as me:):)
>
>

If someone had NEVER lifted weights before, doing everything with 3# to get the form down and the feel of using weights would be appropriate. BUT, since your friend has been doing this for a while, she NEEDS to move up a bit in weight, at least on the larger muscle groups (chest and back) (does putting it this way make it easier to convince her??). I'm always puzzled and annoyed at workouts that have you use the same weight for bicep curls and lat row, for example. Karen Voight has a tendency to do this: you do a whole series of exercises, including lat rows and tricep kickbacks, with the same weight, with no time to change, so you end up going too light for lats and too heavy for triceps!
 
I definitely have that problems with my Cathe DVD's. I gave away all of my VHS and replaced them with DVD, only to find that the music is not near as loud as the VHS. And I really need loud music too! (Cause I love all of CAthe's music!) It is especially noticable for me on Imax and PS series. I ended up buying IMax again on VHS, just so that I could have the louder music. Seems as if the newer DVD's from hers are louder than the ones that were originally just on VHS and I can do PS without it being "loud" cause for me weights is easier to do without energizing music! If anyone finds a solution to this problem, please post it! I tried changing my audio setting, too, but to no avail ;(

Linda
 
I had trouble with the sound when I first set up my player. I contacted Chris and he walked me through the problem. It had to do with my set up. That was back in January and I'm afraid I have slept since then. But I think they have the solution listed in the DVD school now. ? The DVD's really do have great sound. Really. :D
Hope this is some help.
 
All my DVDs are quieter than my VHS and TV programs, when I play them through my standalone player and the TV that's hooked up in my workout room (my DVD is directly connected). If I play them in the front room, they sound a lot better but if I play them on my desktop PC, they sound AWESOME! Especially my Cathe DVDs. I have a great sound system on my desktop PC and it makes all the difference. If you can't get your DVDs to sound any better through your TV, you could always hook it up to a stereo system - the difference should blow you away!

As for your friend, if 3lbs is all she can manage, don't rush her into lifting more -but- do tell her why people use different weights for different body parts. Point her in the right direction and let her know that you are a great resource of information on these things but don't brain her with it!
Best of luck to you and to your friend :)
ATB,
- Lisa :)
 
Hi Janice,

As one who started with none, then 1-2 pound weights and can now exceed the weights Cathe uses in her videos (but not while looking cute and talking at the same time :)), I can tell you that even doing FIRM videos with little or no weight can be INFINITELY beneficial!

When I first started lifting, I could barely get through Kathy Smith's 20 minute sections of "Lift Weights to Lose Weight," on alternate days, with no weight at all, doing just the motions. It was, both physically and psychologically, all I could do to even attempt it. If I had thought I had to do it with actual dumbbells, I'd have been so overwhelmed, I might never have progressed. I couldn't even do the lunges with NO weight. I had to use a broomstick for balance and to help me get back up. It was well over a year before I could do the lunges without the broomstick. Another year after that before I could do them with weights.

I had to spend weeks, maybe months (can't remember for sure), just working my way UP to half a FIRM video! The first time I attempted one, I knew immediately that it was FAR beyond my abilities. Not that I gave up on doing it. I just knew it would be a while. It was. But I DID do it. And much, much more. New challenges have a way of hanging there at the back of your mind, even if reality slaps you in the face.

I don't know what kind of shape your friend is in, but I don't think I'd push her. You can't GIVE her the determination to do this. She'll have to come up with that herself. And if you try to move her ahead too fast, she may give it up. I know I pushed myself much harder than anyone else could have pushed me, but there was a definite limit to what I was capable of, and those boundaries were both physical and (as someone who had never formally exercised before at all) mental, as well. I'd let her find her own pace.

Just my $.02.

Shari
 
I don't have any problem with volume on my DVD. I wonder if it IS the way you hook up your DVD player? You might want to check it out with other DVDs (rented DVD movies)?
 
Janice...can't help you with the DVD problem, BUT I preordered her new workouts all on DVD and I'm going to be really ticked if I can't hear them (and you don't want to make a pregnant person who hates being fat upset).

As for your friend...you didn't mention her reasons for sticking to 3-5 pound weights. It may be that she is REALLY a beginner and needs to stick with this for a while (and I agree with the lower body work, takes a long time to just "get used" to doing squats and lunges). BUT, from the tone of your voice (didn't know I could here you through the forum eh?) it sounds like she may be adement (sp.) about sticking to 3-5 pounds because she may fear the "bulking up" that we are all so opposed to here at Cathe (ha ha :7 :7 ). If that is the case she needs some good articles/information that explain that this just doesn't happen and that beautiful things come from heavy weights. And if that doesn't work, I'll send her pictures of my bicep-veinless arms with lacking shoulder definition, whilst doing bicep curls with 24 pound weights in each hand - now this should be convincing!!

Briee
 
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