Secret Sky TV setting fixes movie-ruining nightmare that kills so many action films

DON’T let movie night be ruined by bad TV settings.

There’s a Sky TV feature that can save you from one of the most common film fails – and it happens all the time on action flicks.

Have you ever watched a movie where the sound of the action is so loud that you just can’t hear the dialogue?

Well Sky has revealed a trick that specifically boosts the audio of dialogue.

It only works inside the Amazon Prime Video app, but it’s extremely handy.

The feature was flagged by an anonymous Sky employee who said: “This feature allows you to boost the volume of dialogue in comparison to background music and sound effects.”

It’s called Dialogue Boost, and it only takes a few seconds to turn on.

All you need to do is load up some Prime Video content on Sky TV, and then go to the Audio and Subtitles dropdown menu.

You can get that on the movie’s Overview panel by pressing UP and then RIGHT.

The Sky employee notes: “The Dialogue Boost levels are labelled: ‘English Dialogue Boost: Medium’ and ‘English Dialogue Boost: High.’

“The detail page for a title will indicate whether Dialogue Boost is available.”

Bear in mind that some titles might not support this option.

OTHER SKY TV TRICKS TO TRY

One of the best Sky tricks is a clever way to find your lost TV remote.

If it’s fallen down the back of the sofa or underneath a table, there’s an easy way to track it down.

Just press on the big Sky Q button on the front of your Sky box.

It’s actually a button and will cause your errant remote to beep for 30 seconds.

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That way you can find it – and once you do, just press any button to cancel the beeping.

Bear in mind that this won’t work if the remote control has no battery, hasn’t been paired with that Sky box, or is out of range.

Once you’ve found it again, you can do some clever tricks with its voice-control function.

For instance, it’s possible to use voice-control to easily skip TV ad breaks on recorded content.

HOW TO SEARCH WITH SKY VOICE REMOTE

Here are some easy commands to try out…

Search for specified movie – “[Movie title]”

Search for specified programme – “[Programme title]”

Search for content which stars specified actor – “[Actor name]”

Search for content directed by specified director – “[Director name]”

Search for movies within specified genre – “[Movie genre]”

Search for sport content within specified genre. Genres include football, F1, Rugby Union, Cricket, and Rugby League – “[Sport genre]”

Search specific channel – “[Channel name]”

Search for movies with a specific star rating – “[x] star movies” “movies rated [x] stars”

Search for content with specified picture format. Picture format includes SD, HD, and Ultra HD – “[Picture format]”

Search for sports, teams or competitions – “[Sport Name]”, “[Team Name]”, “[Competition Name]”

Just hit the microphone button and say “fast-forward three minutes” to blast past entire ad breaks in a flash.

It’s much faster than having to manually fast-forward.

Another great voice-control trick lets you find movies even when you’ve forgotten their names.

All you need to do is say a famous quote from a film or TV show into the microphone and it should pop right up.

CAN’T GET VOICE CONTROL TO WORK?

Here are Sky’s official tips for fixing Voice Control…

If Voice Control isn’t working, check your Sky Q remote for problems:

1. Remove the battery cover off the body of the Sky Q remote.
2. Take out the batteries and insert them again, matching the + and – signs.
3. Once the batteries are in place, replace the cover by aligning the catch with the remote body and sliding forward, so it clicks back into place.

Press help (?) on your remote to check it has battery power:

• If the LED light at the top of the remote flashes , then press and hold the Voice Control button. If you don’t see the search screen then replace the batteries, and press the Voice Control button once more.
• If the LED light at the top of the remote doesn’t flash , then check the batteries are in correctly. If they are, replace them with new batteries. Press and hold the Voice Control button, if you don’t see the search screen then pair the remote.

Sky shared the following list of movies and shows for you to try:

• 42nd Street “Sawyer, you’re going out a youngster, but you’ve got to come back a star!”
• A Few Good Men “You can’t handle the truth!”
• A League Of Their Own “There’s no crying in baseball!”
• A Streetcar Named Desire “Stella! Hey, Stella!” “I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.”
• Airplane! “Surely you can’t be serious!” “I am serious… and don’t call me Shirley.”
• All About Eve “Fasten your seatbelts. It’s going to be a bumpy night.”
• Animal Crackers “How he got in my pajamas I’ll never know.”
• Annie Hall “La-dee-da, la-dee-da”
• Apocalypse Now “I love the smell of napalm in the morning.”
• Apollo 13 “Houston, we have a problem.” “Houston, we’ve had a problem” “Houston, we’ve had a problem.”
• Auntie Mame “Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death!”
• Avengers: Endgame “I need three gaziliion heroes”, “I need four gazillion heroes”, “I need five gazillion heroes”, “Bring me Mjölnir”
• Beyond The Forest “What a dump.”
• Bonnie And Clyde “We rob banks.”
• Bumblebee “Show me four broken toys”
• Casablanca “Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.” “Play it, Sam. Play As Time Goes By.” “Round up the usual suspects.” “We’ll always have Paris.” “Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.”
• Chinatown “Forget it, Jake, it’s Chinatown.”
• Citizen Kane “Rosebud.”
• Cool Hand Luke “What we’ve got here is failure to communicate.”
• Dead Poets Society “Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary.”
• Die Hard “Yippee-ki-yay”
• Die Hard “Now I have a machine gun, ho ho ho!”
• Dirty Dancing “Nobody puts Baby in a corner.”
• Dirty Harry “You’ve got to ask yourself one question: ‘Do I feel lucky?’ Well, do ya, punk?” “Do you feel lucky, punk?”
• Dog Day Afternoon “Attica! Attica!”
• Dr. Strangelove “Gentlemen, you can’t fight in here! This is the War Room!”
• Dracula “Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make.”
• E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial “E.T. phone home.”
• Field Of Dreams “If you build it, he will come.” “If you build it, they
• Frankenstein “It’s alive! It’s alive!”
• Funny Girl “Hello, gorgeous.”
• Game of Thrones “winter is coming”
• Gone With The Wind “Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.”
• Grand Hotel “I want to be alone.”
• Incredibles 2 “we need elastigirl”, “you have powers”
• Jaws “You’re gonna need a bigger boat.”
• Jerry Maguire “Show me the money!” “You had me at hello.”
• Jingle all the way “Jingle all the way”
• Knute Rockne All American “Tell ’em to go out there with all they got and win just one for the Gipper.”
• Lampoon’S Animal House “Toga! Toga!” “Bluto.”
• Little Caesa “Mother of mercy, is this the end of Rico?”
• Love Actually “show me christmas favourites”
• Love Story “Love means never having to say you’re sorry.”
• Marathon Man “Is it safe?”
• Mary Poppins Returns “We need the world’s most famous nanny”
• Mary, Queen of Scots “Two quarrelling queens”
• Mean Girls “on Wednesday we wear pink”
• Midnight Cowboy “I’m walking here! I’m walking here!” “Ratso.”
• Mommie Dearest “No wire hangers, ever!”
• Moonstruck “Snap out of it!”
• Muppet Christmas Carol “Bah Humbug!”
• Network “I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this anymore!”
• Now, Voyager “Oh, Jerry, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We have the stars.”
• On The Waterfront “You don’t understand! I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I could’ve been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am.”
• Poltergeist “They’re here!”
• Psycho “A boy’s best friend is his mother.”
• Rocky “Yo, Adrian!”
• Scarface “Say ‘hello’ to my little friend!”
• Shane “Shane. Shane. Come back!”
• She Done Him Wrong “Why don’t you come up sometime and see me?” “Why don’t you come up and see me sometime.”
• Some Like It Hot “Well, nobody’s perfect.”
• Sons Of The Desert “Well, here’s another nice mess you’ve gotten me into!”
• Soylent Green “Soylent Green is people!”
• Star Wars “May the Force be with you.”
• Sudden Impact “Go ahead, make my day.”
• Sunset Boulevard “I am big! It’s the pictures that got small.” “I’m ready for my close-up, Mr. DeMille.” “All right, Mr. DeMille, I’m ready for my close-up.”
• Taxi Driver “You talking to me?”
• Terminator 2: Judgment Day “Hasta la vista, baby.”
• The Godfather II “Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.”
• The Graduate “Mrs. Robinson, you’re trying to seduce me. Aren’t you?”
• The Grinch “You’re a mean one, Mr Grinch”
• The Grinch “Take me to Whoville!”
• The Jazz Singer “Wait a minute, wait a minute. You ain’t heard nothin’ yet!”
• The Lego Movie 2 “Two worlds colliding”, “Three duplo aliens!”, “Three lego aliens!”
• The Lord Of The Rings: Two Towers “My precious.”
• The Maltese Falcon “The stuff that dreams are made of.”
• The Pride Of The Yankees “Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.”
• The Sixth Sense “I see dead people.”
• The Terminator “I’ll be back.”
• The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre “Gold hat.”
• The Wizard Of Oz “I’ll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too!”
• Titanic “I’m the king of the world!”
• Top Gun “I feel the need – the need for speed!” “Goose.”
• Wall Street “Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.”
• When Harry Met Sally “I’ll have what she’s having.”
• White Heat “Made it, Ma! Top of the world!” “Cody.”
• Yankee Doodle Dandy “My mother thanks you. My father thanks you. My sister thanks you. And I thank you.”

Just note that if a movie isn’t currently available on Sky TV, it won’t appear using this method – no matter how impressive your delivery of the quote is.

One final trick worth trying is tracking down your hidden TV folder.

It turns out that when recorded content is deleted, it doesn’t actually vanish right away.

You can actually go into Sky’s Deleted folder and bring it back from the dead.

So if you regret deleting something, accidentally scrubbed a show, or had a rogue family member wipe your favourite movie away, you can go and get it back.

Just go to the Recordings section on your Sky Planner, then Manage > Deleted.

It’s also a handy trick for freeing up storage, because this folder is where you can permanently delete content to get its claimed space back.