BECAUSE BY THE TIME A YEAR PASSES CONGRESS WILL HAVE FORGOTTEN ALL ABOUT HOW THEY SOLVED THE 'LOUD COMMERCIALS' PROBLEM, START WRITING A BILL TO LIMIT VOLUME OF COMMERICALS ON TV

I, however, have already solved the problem, and it didn't take a bill getting passed in US Congress.

/you turn it the f*ck off, moron

snuffy: no fu*king excuse that the rule is not in effect yesterday.

SHOULD HAVE BEEN DONE DECADES AGO!

Strangely enough, I thought this already gone into effect. I haven't noticed it lately. And nobody hates commercials more than I do.

/I use the "mute" button anyway

!!!

Good to see Obama focusing on the tough issues.

Hopefully the "new equipment" needed for sound regulation will be obscenely priced so local commercials will cease to exist. Wishful thinking probably, cause you see, I've got a right to dream.

/there's more than this for me

Actually the article is pretty clear on why - it's because the mandate was put on the broadcasting stations and not the commercial creators. However I suppose the question then is was it really the commercial creators cranking the volume up, or was it the broadcasters (or a little of both)

I didn't read the article, but is it because by then everyone will be downloading TV without commercials?

Because the world will have ended by then, so it won't matter either way.

Because the Constitution is silent on the TV issue.

/And the silent movie issue too.
//Not to mention the TCP/IP message tracking issue.

BizarreMan: So they put the onus on the broadcasters instead of the ad agencies. It's simple. Just don't accept commercials that are so freaking loud. Put it on the people who actually cause the problem.

TV stations and cables can easily change compression methods to keep it from happening. They choose not to.

Ah, saps who still watch TV with commercials.

It aint perfect, but I've gotten by the last 5 months without cable. Buy AMC and USA shows after they air on Amazon, rent Blu-rays from Netflix when new shows come to disc, and a friend gives me access to their HBO GO account (which I'm confident HBO will eventually sell to non-subscribers).

And I'm saving like $80/month.

As someone who enjoys falling asleep to history international (or h2 whatever it is now) I can't wait.tired of the olds people screaming "help"all night...

My father used to accuse me of having a hearing problem and yell at me for having the TV so loud. I was never so happy as the day when I could show him an article like this and say "Ha."

They are ridiculously loud. "BUY OUR shiat! IT'S AWESOME! YOU NEED IT!"

My teevee adjusts the volume automatically.

Neener?

Good to see Washington is focusing on the tough issues. I wonder how many people lost their homes in the time it took to write that bill.

Why wait until December 2012? Well they won't have much use for advertising after the reptilian overlords beam all the blue bloods onto their ship while the rest of us 99% will be left to face every natural disaster possible.

/Plus an army of locusts that have human, horse, and scorpion feature
//That's my favorite part of the apocalypse.

My torrent downloads don't have advertisements. I feel left out.

But I thought "the commercials are louder than regular TV" was an Urban Myth? That's what the "specialists" (like local News-tards) have been telling us for 20 years.

How do the back of my balls sound, ass-farks??

I stopped watching TV a long time ago. For me it's Netflix streaming, YouTube, or justin.tv.

If they can get rid of the compression, fine by me (that's why commercials sound 'loud').

Now if they would only do the same thing for music...

Since my favorite cable channels have been going the way of 'reality tv' with Nat Geo just hanging on by a thread over the Reality pit, commercials every 6-7 minutes on several channels I like(d) and Sci-Fi (or whatever) cancelling ANY series that requires more than a third grade education from the audience... I've canceled all my paid television services.

I've found that I actually don't miss them just because I remember them in the state that they were in when I quit watching rather than how they were just a few years ago.

Jesus people, the audio mutes when the Tivo is fast forwarded. What's the problem?

/Makes TV commercials.
//Just for you. ;)

Average volume you say? Prepare for:

COMMERCIAL WHICH BEGINS WITH TOP-O-THE-LUNGS SCREAMING AND PROGRESSES TO NORMAL SCREAMING and finally ends with the fine print in hushled tones

Same on average, right?

thornhill: Ah, saps who still watch TV with commercials.

It aint perfect, but I've gotten by the last 5 months without cable. Buy AMC and USA shows after they air on Amazon, rent Blu-rays from Netflix when new shows come to disc, and a friend gives me access to their HBO GO account (which I'm confident HBO will eventually sell to non-subscribers).

And I'm saving like $80/month.

So you treat getting cheap T.V. like a full time job to save 80 bucks. Cool story bro.

I'd be happy if all the stations could get on the same volume.

jaylectricity: They'll still be able to get around it by compressing the audio on the commercials to put every frequency at maximum volume and having the programs aired at their original levels where just the peaks are at maximum volume.

Nah, it's not that complicated...



/ i keed, I know what you're talking about
//used to work at a radio station
///we could crank the volume up quite a bit without noticeable clipping

Cubs300: Because the world will have ended by then, so it won't matter either way.

Since the Mayans invented television, things will have gone full circle.

I could care less, thanks to modern technology. PVRs are a lifesaver, and in the rare case that I watch a show live, the "mute" button takes care of the noisy hype.

Radio commercials are much more irritating to me than TV commercials. I wish they would pass a law to: a) shut up that guy that talks at 5x normal speed before the Green Light commercials; b) allow advertisers to say the phone number only once; and c) restrict the number of times the same ad can be played in the same half-hour period.

Why don't they yet have a radio with a PVR function on the market? It wouldn't be too hard to implement with modern technology.

Hey has anyone whined & biatched that the government should have used the time to fix something more important yet?


Also:

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Oops, just noticed my bad. A radio couldn't have a PVR function cos there's no video... they'd have to come up with a new name for it.

destrip: I could care less, thanks to modern technology. PVRs are a lifesaver, and in the rare case that I watch a show live, the "mute" button takes care of the noisy hype.

Radio commercials are much more irritating to me than TV commercials. I wish they would pass a law to: a) shut up that guy that talks at 5x normal speed before the Green Light commercials; b) allow advertisers to say the phone number only once; and c) restrict the number of times the same ad can be played in the same half-hour period.

Why don't they yet have a radio with a PVR function on the market? It wouldn't be too hard to implement with modern technology.

I'd be happy if they just banned the ads that go "Back to the show in just a sec, but before that..." Oh, and Hardees ads. God their commercials are stupid

destrip:
Radio commercials are much more irritating to me than TV commercials.


The worst part about radio ads is how they feel this need to put road sound effects in the recording. Car horns & police sirens do not belong in a radio ad, yet they are in between a quarter to one half of them on any given day.

The 2 rock stations here also have a strong tendency to play hillbilly ass sounding stations, and each one has their own generic radio guy who does most of the local commercials.

Then there is the business owners who think they have a radio voice but do not.

But mostly, yeah, the sounds that make you think they are coming from outside the damn car.

I just scream back at the TV.

Everybody looking to the government to solve their problems...