death to loud commercials

[colterphoto1]

Commercials to be played at AVERAGE db level of show, not PEAK level!

yeahhhhhh[Y]

[HudsonValleyNoah]

[<)][][Y]

[sunburnwilly]

Thought this day would never come .

[Cal Blacksmith]

[Y]

[White_Hawk]

This can't come fast enough... My wife and I have been complaining for so long about this - heck half the time we just mute during commercials. Its gotten better since we got a DVR though =)

[Islander]

That idea is long overdue! [Y]

[Brac]

You can't see me, but I'm dancin'.

[seti]

I hate those &$*&^#N obnoxious tv popup animated ads. I mean WTH.

It makes me want to just by dvds instead of paying for tv.

[Sick Mother]

I hate to be the one who rains on the parade, but this isn't set in stone, as the title implies. "Loud TV commercials may be coming to an end"

I hate this problem as much as the next guy, but at this point overseers, regulators, and executives are "coming together"...whatever that means.

John

[JJkizak]

The newspaper article that I reead said if the government won't act legislation the broadcasters will still go ahead with implementing a new limiting system of which it is almost complete.

JJK

[RichardP]

Unfortunately the key word there is "broadcasters," which only refers to over-the-air signals from the 5 networks (via your local stations). Cable and satellite are not regulated to the same degree that broadcast stations are. It remains to be seen whether the 150+ cable channels will be on board with this. You can bet that your local cable company will not agree to, or even be able to, regulate volume on the signals that come into your home. They will likely say they can only retransmit whatever signal they receive from the sources.

In 2007, two junior senators (both female, interestingly) proposed similar legislation, and were pointedly ridiculed for spending their time on something "as trivial" as commercial volume, when the nation was mired in war, terrorism, and failing economy.

[BigStewMan]

i don't know much about broadcasting. who decides what volume an ad will be played at? does the person buying the air time say we want this played loud?

i'd like to tell them, I won't buy your product simply because your loud commercials are annoying. i have to adjust the volume during commercials.

[jacksonbart]

Wallet Pop solved the Cold War so its only logical that they have solved the plague of the late 20th century of loud TV commercials.

[davisindy]

One of the worst offenders of this is the Pallidia channel delivered to me via Comcast. If you would think of any channel you might have the amp running a bit hot on during the program content is this one.