And who says congress is worthless?
Senate votes to turn down volume on TV commercials - Yahoo! News
Senate votes to turn down volume on TV commercials - Yahoo! News
Sentate passes commercial volume law
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Hey! They had to pass something before they took their vacation (oops, I mean election) break. Gotta make the home folks think their tax dollars are well spent.
I don't understand why they thought commercials being loud would work anyway. If anything , it makes me want to turn off the sound.
I think this is wonderful. Try wearing headphones when a commercial break begins.
My ears thank the worthless Senate.
My ears thank the worthless Senate.
What, no filibuster? They'll filibuster closing tax loop holes that benefit moving jobs out of the country, but they won't filibuster a volume law? The R's are losing their touch.
Naw, they'd have to eliminate the volume completely for those things.
Good! Nothing quite like trying to quietly watch late-night TV while the rest of the family is asleep only to have Billy Mays, from the grave mind you, blast them out of bed.
This is going to make multichannels ultimately responsible for volume levels, and they're going to have to spend millions to make sure all audio formats and compression techs are supported.
You can support this bill, or you can complain about price increases, but you can't do both.
You can support this bill, or you can complain about price increases, but you can't do both.
What companies like comcast and dish could have done to avoid this is to just tell the producers of the commercials, "your audio has to be at a certain level" or we wont play it.
Personally, I find their excuses lame.
Dish's own commercials are among the worst offenders as well as many of the commercials they put into the streams. Their arguments might hold water if just one station in their lineup played the commercial at normal level, but they don't. Their loud on every station it plays on.
But if it plays on my locals, its normal.
I am just glad their going to be forced to deal with it.
If dish says it has to raise prices to be in accordance with the new law, because their own commercial is too loud? Then I smell a great class action lawsuit.
Personally, I find their excuses lame.
Dish's own commercials are among the worst offenders as well as many of the commercials they put into the streams. Their arguments might hold water if just one station in their lineup played the commercial at normal level, but they don't. Their loud on every station it plays on.
But if it plays on my locals, its normal.
I am just glad their going to be forced to deal with it.
If dish says it has to raise prices to be in accordance with the new law, because their own commercial is too loud? Then I smell a great class action lawsuit.
The devil is in the details.
Does the legislation cap the volume at a certain dB level?
Does it deal with average levels, max levels, how does it deal with the different dynamic ranges of DD 5.1 and stereo?
Will it make DD 5.1 sound worse?
Unless coingress (sic) did some good research and had excellent, honest help in writing this legislation, they have probably screwed things up more than solving anything.
Beware when someone says: "I'm from the government, and I'm here to help you."
Does the legislation cap the volume at a certain dB level?
Does it deal with average levels, max levels, how does it deal with the different dynamic ranges of DD 5.1 and stereo?
Will it make DD 5.1 sound worse?
Unless coingress (sic) did some good research and had excellent, honest help in writing this legislation, they have probably screwed things up more than solving anything.
Beware when someone says: "I'm from the government, and I'm here to help you."
They really do have more important things to do, pisses me off when they do worthless busy work. Same thing when our state legislators spend time doing worthless things like naming sections of highway instead of passing a budget(which is their MAIN job). Gotta love people that get paid big bucks for nothing.
Many advertisers broadcast their commercials in mono sound(1.0).If you have a tv with stereo sound (2.0) or Dolby Digital surround sound (5.1, 7.1) and watching a movie or show in that sound format and a commericial comes in mono it will always be louder. It takes less power and volume to broadcast some thing in mono. This is why many commericials are louder than the show or movie that is being showed. That way if you fall asleep while watching a show you are more likely to wake up during their commerical. This applied to all cable and satellite providers.
Soon dish network customers will no no lorger have to awake to the annoying commercials from online bootycall .com, finallyfast .com or extenze(all advertise directly through dish). It seems like those commercials play a lot late at night on most channels
Soon dish network customers will no no lorger have to awake to the annoying commercials from online bootycall .com, finallyfast .com or extenze(all advertise directly through dish). It seems like those commercials play a lot late at night on most channels
