The ITU-R is going to win an Emmy http://voicendata.ciol.com/content/news1/112011308.asp so the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences is doing the backtracking to the source.
The news that most folks in the US have heard is about the CALM act http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_Advertisement_Loudness_Mitigation_Act What that does is to incorporate by reference ATSC A/85:2011 http://www.atsc.org/cms/standards/a_85-2011a.pdf What that does is to reiterate ITU-R BS.1770 http://www.itu.int/rec/R-REC-BS.1770/en If I'm not mistaken congress wanted to regulate commercial volume around 20 years ago, but at that point the broadcasters pointed to particular metrics for volume by which there was no difference. I have no idea when ITU-R started work on BS.1770, but it was getting an international agreement on that which enabled the rest of this story. -- Steve Allen <s...@ucolick.org> WGS-84 (GPS) UCO/Lick Observatory--ISB Natural Sciences II, Room 165 Lat +36.99855 1156 High Street Voice: +1 831 459 3046 Lng -122.06015 Santa Cruz, CA 95064 http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/ Hgt +250 m _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
