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[TyWelcome]

I may be in the wrong forum but whenever a commercial comes on my TV the volume gets really loud. I remmeber alongtime ago there was a do-hicky that controled that volume boost.

Pls if you know send help,

Ty Welcome

[lordsmurf]

I hate this.

I wish the FCC would make a law where a commercial cannot be louder than the programming. Many commercials are at least 4x the volume of even NASCAR races and WWE wrestling, which are not quiet tv show. Especially local ones the cable companies or local networks dub over the national feeds.

Either that, or tv sets need to come pre-equipped with normalization filters.

[mastersmurfie]

I seem to have this problem with only two channels (on my cable system...):

Toon Disney volume is LOUDER than all other channels!!! (when my daughter watches it, holy crap!! I could wake the dead!!)

and

FX channel volume is sometimes so low that I have to crank up the receiver to even be able to hear anything...

Commericals I really haven't had a *noticable* problem with, as I tend to leave the room when they come on...

[guns1inger]

In Australia the regulations state that advertising may bot be louder than standard broadcast material. How do they get around this ? They normalise the advertisments with a compressed dynamic range a high gain at the top of the allowable decibel range. The audio stays within the limits set in the broadcast regulations, however on playback they appear to be a lot louder than the surrounding programs with wider dynamic range.

[edDV]

In Australia the regulations state that advertising may bot be louder than standard broadcast material. How do they get around this ? They normalise the advertisments with a compressed dynamic range a high gain at the top of the allowable decibel range. The audio stays within the limits set in the broadcast regulations, however on playback they appear to be a lot louder than the surrounding programs with wider dynamic range.

Same thing here and those TV commercial suppression circuits don't work. This is a good business opportunity for some enterprising audio engineer. I think it would need downloadable firmware similar to ad blocking software as the coutermeasures kick in.

PS, the best way to get the program producers on your side is to complain that you can't hear them after a commercial break, so you change to a channel you can hear. They get the point.

But this has the affect that they compress the dynamic range of their show defeating the benefit of AC-3.

[zoobie]

I read somewhere years ago they did that on purpose so you could hear the commercial in the toilet...ha ha. Probably an old wive's tale...