Installing VLC Media Player voids your speaker warranty
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Installing VLC Media Player voids your speaker warranty
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Re: Installing VLC Media Player voids your speaker warranty
#2What the...?
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#3This is stupid. They are making speakers that can't withstand some cases of within-the-bounds PCM signal.
If we had a normal society anywhere on earth they would be sued to the ground there.
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#4If DELL is right that would mean even if I craft a sound file with a very high amplitude, play it with another software, it should not damage the speakers.
I would have thought windows could limitate the amplitude of the sound sent to the hardware, maybe VLC is somehow bypassing this.
Seems like an odd issue though.
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#5That kind of amplitude abuse is the equivalent of pounding very hard on the keyboard for long periods of time - it will break sooner than it would normally have, and can rightfully be considered abuse. However, voiding the warranty simply because of VLC installed is, again, the equivalent of voiding the keyboard warranty simply because you are a bodybuilder.
Ok enough metaphors.
Re: Installing VLC Media Player voids your speaker warranty
#6Next logic step: playing DUBSTEP voids your speaker warranty
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#7Not speaking of Dell's behavior but VLC should maybe add a warning to the settings when the user goes over 100% if it damages the speakers.
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#8Shouldn't instead Dell make the speakers not be able to get physically damanged by software?
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#9sounds like buggy speaker hardware or firmware. How about don't use Dell laptops to play audio?
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#10What kind of person uses crappy laptop speakers for media consumption?