Bob Shell wrote:
>On Dec 20, 2006, at 11:28 PM, ann sanfedele wrote: > >>something I've been meaning to ask you electronics types - >>is there a gadget you can attach to your tv to regulate the sound >>so that no matter how loud or soft the actual broadcast is you can keep it at >>the same decible level? >> >> >> >>If there is not something like that in existence, someone should >>make it. >> >>sudden loudness is very stressful for me, and I think many of us who are >>getting on in years and have slight hearing problems. >> >> Bob wrote: >I don't know of such a thing, but I agree that it ought to exist. >For years TV broadcasters claimed that the volume was not louder >during commercials. They were shown proof in the form of dB >readings. They still denied it. Only recently have they admitted to >this foul practice. I heard one executive defend it recently by >saying that people often leave the room during commercials, so they >needed to be louder so they could be heard in other rooms. Amazing! > LOL! that one I had not heard... >It doesn't seem to occur to them that if they actually made the >commercials interesting people might stay and watch them. > >.. >instead of just making one commercial and running it endlessly until >people want to upchuck when it comes on, make a bunch of different >ones. In my opinion just about the only good commercials on US TV >are GEICO. They are funny, creative, and they don't just make one >and run it endlessly. But nobody else in the ad business seems to be >paying attention. > Yes those are great - but they were guilty, at least in NY, of running the same one frequently for a while. >This issue of cranking the volume up for commercials is something the >FCC could actually be useful in dealing with. Instead of making >Bravo edit all the cursing out of Six Feet Under, they could better >occupy their time in dealing with issues like this. > No shit :) ann > >Bob > > > > > > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
