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

Is there a heaven TV feature that can save you from one of the most common film fail – and it happens all the time in action movies.

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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 sound of dialogue.

It only works inside Amazon The Prime Video app, however, is extremely handy.

The feature was reported by a anonymous Sky employee who said: “This feature allows you to increase the volume of dialogue compared to background music and sound effects.”

It’s called Dialogue Boost and it only takes a few seconds to start.

All you have to do is upload Prime Video content to your Sky TV and then go to the Audio and Subtitles drop-down menu.

You can get this in the Movie Overview panel by pressing UP and then RIGHT.

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

“The details page for a title will indicate if Dialogue Boost is available.”

Note that some titles may 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 control.

If it fell on the back of the couch or under a table, there’s an easy way to find it.

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

It’s actually a button and will make your stray remote beep for 30 seconds.

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

Note that this won’t work if your remote 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 feature.

For example, you can easily use voice control skip TV commercial breaks on the recorded content.

HOW TO SEARCH WITH SKY VOICE REMOTE CONTROL

Here are some simple commands to try…

Search for the specified movie – “(Movie Title)”

Search for the specified program – “(Program Title)”

Search for content you see on the specified actor – “(Actor’s Name)”

Search for content directed by the specified director – “(director’s name)”

Search for movies of the specified genre – “(movie genre)”

Search for sports content of the specified genre. Genres include Football, F1, Rugby Union, Cricket and Rugby League – “(Sports Genre)”

Search for a specific channel – “(Channel Name)”

Search for movies with a specific star rating – “(x) star movies” “(x) star movies”

Search for content with the specified image format. Picture format includes SD, HD and Ultra HD – “(Image format)”

Search for sports, teams or competitions – “(Name of sport)”, “(Name of team)”, “(Name of competition)”

Just press the microphone button and say “fast forward three minutes” to fast-forward between commercial breaks.

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

Another great one voice control trick allows you to find movies even when you forgot their names.

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

CAN’T GET VOICE CONTROL WORKING?

Here’s Sky’s official tips for fixing voice control…

If voice control doesn’t work, check your Sky Q remote for problems:

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

Presser Help (?) on the remote control to check if it has battery power:

• If the LED lights up on the top of the remote flashed then press and hold Voice control button. If you don’t see the search screen, replace the batteries and press the voice control button again.
• If the LED lights up on the top of the remote it doesn’t blink then check if the batteries are inserted correctly. If there are, replace them with new batteries. Press and hold Voice control button if you don’t see the search screen then pair the remote control.

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

• 42nd Street “Sawyer, you go out young, but you gotta come back a star!”
• Some good people “You can’t handle the truth!”
• A league of their own “There’s no crying in baseball!”
• A tram called Desire “Stella! Hey Stella!” “I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.”
• Plane! “Surely you can’t be serious!” “I’m serious—and don’t call me Shirley.”
• All about Eve “Fasten your seat belts. It’s going to be a hectic night.”
• Animal Crackers “How he got into 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 had a problem” “Houston, we had a problem.”
• Auntie Mame “Life is a banquet, and most of the poor wretches are starving!”
• Avengers: Endgame “I need three billion heroes”, “I need four gazillion heroes”, “I need five gazillion heroes”, “Bring me Mjölnir”
• Beyond the Woods “What a pit.”
• Bonnie and Clyde “Rob the Banks”.
• Bumblebee “Show me four broken toys”
• Casablanca “Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.” “Play, Sam.” Play as time goes by.” “Round up the usual suspects.” “We’ll always have Paris.” “Of all the gin bars in all the cities in the world, she walks into mine.”
• Chinatown “Forget it, Jake, it’s Chinatown.”
• Citizen Kane “Rosebud”.
• Cool Hand Luke “What we have here is a failure to communicate.”
• Society of Dead Poets “Carpe diem. Seize the day, guys. Make your life extraordinary.”
• Die Hard “Yippee-ki-yay”
• Die Hard “Now I have a machine gun, ho ho ho!”
• Dirty Dancing “No one puts the baby in a corner.”
• Dirty Harry “You have to ask yourself, ‘Do I feel lucky?’ Well, yeah, punk?” “Feeling lucky you bastard?”
• Dog Day Afternoon “Attica! Attica!”
• Dr. Strangelove “Gentlemen, you cannot fight here! This is the war room!”
• Dracula “Listen to them. Children of the night. What music I make.”
• ET Extraterrestrial “ET Phone Home”.
• Field Of Dreams “If you build it, it will come.” “If you build it, they
• Frankenstein “He’s Alive! He’s alive!”
• Funny girl “Hello gorgeous.”
• Game of Thrones “Winter is Coming”
• Gone With The Wind “Honestly, my dear, I don’t care.”
• Grand Hotel “I want to be alone.”
• Incredibles 2 “we need elastigirl”, “you have powers”
• Jaws “You’ll 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 them to go out there with everything they’ve got and win just one for the Gipper.”
• Lampoon’s Animal House ‘Toga! Toga!” “Bluto.”
• Little Ceza “Mother of mercy, is this the end of Rico?”
• Love Actually “show me your Christmas favourites”
• Love Story “Love is 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 Quarreling Queens”
• Bad Girls “Wednesday We Wear Pink”
• Midnight Cowboy “Here I go! I’m walking around here!” “Ratso.”
• Dear Mom “No wire hangers, ever!”
• Moonshot “Get out of it!”
• Muppet Christmas Carol “Bah Humbug!”
• Network “I’m pissed as hell and I’m not going to take this anymore!”
• Now, Voyager “Oh, Jerry, let’s not ask for the moon. We have the stars.”
• On the waterfront “You don’t understand! I could have class. I could be a competitor. I could have been somebody, instead of a bum, which I am.”
• Poltergeist “I’m here!”
• Psycho “A boy’s best friend is his mother.”
• Rocky “Yo Adrian!”
• Scarface “Say hi to my little friend!”
• Shane “Shane. Shane. Come back!”
• She took it wrong “Why don’t you come see me sometime?” “Why don’t you come see me sometime.”
• Some people like hot “Well, nobody’s perfect.”
• Sons Of The Desert “Well here’s another beautiful mess you’ve gotten me into!”
• Soylent Green “Soylent Green is people!”
• Star Wars “May the Force Be With You”.
• Sudden Impact “Go on, make my day.”
• Sunset Boulevard “I’m big! The pictures have become small.” “I’m ready for the first plan, Mr. DeMille.” “All right, Mr. DeMille, I’m ready for the first shot.”
• Taxi Driver “Are 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 Evil Mr. Grinch”
• The Grinch “Take me to Whoville!”
• Jazz singer “Wait a minute, wait a minute. You haven’t heard anything yet!”
• The Lego Movie 2 “Two Worlds Collide”, “Three Duplo Aliens!”, “Three Lego Aliens!”
• The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers “My Precious”.
• The Maltese Falcon “The stuff dreams are made of.”
• Pride of the Yankees “Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.”
• Sixth sense “I see dead people”.
• Terminator “I’ll be back”.
• Sierra Madre Treasure “Golden Hat”.
• The Wizard of Oz “I’ll take you, my dear, and your puppy!”
• Titanic “I’m 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 has”.
• White Heat “I did it mommy! The top of the world!” “Cody.”
• Yankee Doodle Dandy “My mother thanks you. My father thanks you. My sister thanks you. And thank you.”

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

One last trick worth trying is to track yourself hidden TV folder.

It seems that when recorded content is deleted, it doesn’t disappear immediately.

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

So if you regret deleting something, accidentally deleted a show, or had a rogue family member delete your favorite movie, you can go get it back.

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

It’s also a handy trick to free up storage space, as this folder is where you can permanently delete content to reclaim reclaimed space.