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They make TVs that self-regulate the sound volume now …
I regulate my television volume by not owning one. (Yes, I’m a smug bastard.)
I am a smug bastard that doesn’t own one too.
Smug Bastards.
…oh wait, you said that.
That doesn’t stop Billy Mays…
He breaks the speakers
Now up in the Big Infomercial in the Sky ;_;
The reason for the difference in sound between show and commercial is that commercials can not go any louder than the loudest part of the show, if you watch something with loud explosions, the commercial can get as aloud as that explosion did. Watch quieter shows and this wont be an issue LOL
Sometimes the treble and bass gets messed up as well as the volume. Even on radio, when the ads go on, my subwoofer is going like WOOT WOOT WOOT WOOT BOOM even when its a friggin Shane Company ad.
Try closed captioning.
They’ll just use a bigger font in the commercials.
Or all caps.
But that’s for the hearing impaired. I get offended reading that when I’m using it because I like to read.
I also hate reading “this movie has been formated to fit your screen.” With the umpteen zillion different formats out there it is quite rare for a picture to properly fit my screen.
Well atleast this wasn’t exaggerated or anything…
Oh my god! Somebody exaggerated numbers in order to make a funny graph! How could they do that!?!?!
what is this world coming to??
I know this site isn’t built to show off hilariously exaggerated graphs or anything…
tards
Good one.
Is it just my service, or does anyone notice this especially with FX… I have to crank the volume up to 50 during the movie then brace myself for deafness when the commercials come on. I cant seem to find the mute button fast enough. WTF FX?
If you have a new TV then it should be pretty easy to find it in the audio settings. Volume Normalization, standarization, single audio, StableSound, etc.
mhmm. and fox.
billy mayes ftl
the sound volume is the same. they just compress the crap out of the volume of the commercials so that the quiet parts are always as loud as the loudest parts of the programming. the FCC doesnt allow anything on TV to be above a certain decibel rating. its the same with radio. they compress the crap out of all the music to “make it sound better” as in its right in your face. it kills the dynamic range.
I’m sorry, I have heard this explanation a dozen times and I just don’t buy it. Commercials are louder, not mixed differently. If it waddles like a duck and quacks like a duck, it’s probably a duck.
no.. its true. they compress radio at 20:1 with a 2 second release time. if a song has a super long pause in it, you can hear the compressor open up. im an audio professional.. i know this sort of thing.
everyone wants the loudest song on the radio, so its already compressed. same with commercials. lately, ive been BLASTED by some commercials. it pisses me off. something tells me the new HDtv’s have something different in there regulating the volume.
well at least the people that know whats going on agree with me. im an audio major in college and nobody seems to believe me when i explain all the details about it. i think my tv has a compressor in it too with a slow release on it. sometimes something really loud happens and then i cant here much of anything for a few seconds. its really annoying.
another annoying use of compressors is death magnetic…all im going to say about that.
If it makes you feel any better, it’s not just the US, this happens in the UK too.
And it could be just my perception but it seems a lot worse late in the evening. Maybe they’re trying to wake up all those who fall asleep in front of the telly.
….Maybe it seems that way because you’re falling asleep…
I’ve got to agree.
I mean I”m sitting in an apartment at 1am watching a tv show or a movie. I’ve got CC on and the volume of the show to *exactly* where i feel comfortable. I can hear, I can understand, but I won’t wake anybody up.
Next thing you know I’m being screamed at as the TV wants to know if me or my once-sleeping neighbors/room mate would like to see some girls going wild.
Wow… my mom was JUST saying this yesterday… weird, but true.
There has never been a truer chart in the history of GraphJam.
Especially FX. Once I was watching “Walk the Line” on that channel, it was so quiet I had to turn my television up all the way and the second it went to commercial it was like and explosion was taking place. D:
Amen to that my humor-brother
HI! BILLY MAYS HERE!
Sins wi deeregyoolated efrythin, teh fcc dusnt kare. the tv surfis pruhvidrs kan doo ennythin tehy lyke.
http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/consumerfacts/backgroundnoise.html
we r gong to dvr efreythin and pis on teh komurshuls.
I think you’re lost, madam. Turn left at the end of the corridor, Lolcats is third room on the right. No problem – have a nice day.
There’s a simple way to get around this – watch a government-funded channel, like the ABC or BBC, or press the mute button.
That’s your advice? Watch crappy TV?
Oh, or mute and un-mute everytime
well, this is very true that commercials are louder then the show itself. i was watching American Idol and the volume was so low that i had to turn the tv up to almost maximum volume and then a commercial came along and it was blasting the music in the commercial.
I’ve got DirecTV, and I find that just as loud as the commercials are my local stations. (Switching between Boomerang and my local PBS affiliate for my daughter is fun in the morning while my husband’s still trying to sleep.)
i have Cox with the HD feature so even though it’s in high definition, there are still downsides.
Is there a difference between older TV’s and newer TV’s? Mine is from pre-1996, and one of either two things has to be happening:
(1) Everyone in the programs I watch is speaking in a barely audible whisper; or
(2) The volume on the commercials is set to “shrieking banshee.”
I’m solving it by not regularly watching any new TV shows than what I already do, and if I can do something for free with On Demand, or get it on a network’s web site — I just do that. At least then it’s less of an auditory bombardment (although the commercials still come across as way too loud — actually, possibly even louder. At least they’re shorter, though).
I does suck, I go asleep watching Steven Colbert at 10:30pm and wake up at 3 am to girls gone wild, can’t they be secret strippers parading as women that might actually sleep w. the men that buy the DVD’s without the loud voice-over?
So true.
Must be a Comcast subscriber…
It was Billy May’s fault
It’s because you go to fridge when commercials start. They make sure you hear it all the way there.
BILLY MAYS
TV companies turn down television programmes, and the Commercials are at maximum capacity, that is why they appear louder.