No more loud TV commercials?

[Hopeful Bastard]

Glad to see you are not losing ya grip then..............

How can ya loose grip with rubber tweezers??

[McJim]

I heard that if you download your tv programmes from a torrent that you don't get adverts. Maybe the TV stations are trying to drive people away?

[DMNTD:Me]

Ours does not work. Any button we push changes the channel to 0

...or if you've booked something on another channel!
Maybe DB works for them as it appears to have at least gone national!

[schrodingers cat]

that really fucks me off. i wish they would compress the audio signal more!

I think compression is the problem in the first place.
My understanding is that there is a guideline on how 'loud' an ad can be. Natural sound which has peaks and lows resulting in a mean noise level below the (allowable)peak. By compressing the highs down onto the lows they can raise the mean much closer to the allowable level.
It isn't louder per se but because there is no respite it blasts you.

The older I get the more cynical I become of all marketting/advertising. I realise that the research done makes it difficult to not be affected by or to respond to it. However, when ads annoy me I consciously avoid the product.

The worst are the ads promoting the 'News'
Every big story! Getting the issues! Truth now!

Fuck off

Trying to improve ratings so we can sell advertising so you can be pressured to buy hideously misrepresented product.

There, thats more like the truth and I didn't need to shout.

[Swoop]

Sod watching TV adverts. Record programme and then play back+skip forward past the ads. Great feature on your DVD units, Mr Panasonic!

[nodrog:Me]

How amusing, the guys name is Mr P. Ennis.

Fanny.

[Grasshopperus]

What annoys me is that C4 seems to be permanently compressed at maximum volume. Every other channel is kinda similar but whenever I flick over to C4 I also have to turn down the volume.

I guess they're more EXTREME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[avgas]

"We have been introducing it since last month. It is quite complex to get the balance right across all channels."

Its called a ramp/fade function.
Quite simple

Program ends
Fade into the advert from a volume of 0
Fade out of the advert to a volume of 0
Program continues

Only been around for about 100 years.
Wheres my bullshit bell

[marie_speeds]

Who on earth is moronic enough to watch ads? Ad breaks are for other things...

[oldrider]

Being hard of hearing (read deaf) I have to have the volume up on everything!

Consequence is that all the volume controls are warn out due to having to turn it down when the "loud" advertising comes on!

I think it is just bullshit having the advertising on so loud on radio and TV but there you go!

[Quasievil]

has something to do with marketing and subliminal etc

Shit thats clever, always wondered why I mute the adverts

[Banditbandit]

Ours does not work. Any button we push changes the channel to 0

Harley-made ?

[Genie]

Who on earth is moronic enough to watch ads? Ad breaks are for other things...

at last someone who finally made some sense...there is so much one can do in an ad break...if you know what I mean

[Jantar]

....It isn't louder per se but because there is no respite it blasts you.......

I have also heard that explanation. So I hooked an oscilliscope up to the TV speakers to check. Guess what .... The peaks on the ads were much higher than the peaks on the normal programme. So I figure that means the ads are louder per se.

[schrodingers cat]

I have also heard that explanation. So I hooked an oscilliscope up to the TV speakers to check. Guess what .... The peaks on the ads were much higher than the peaks on the normal programme. So I figure that means the ads are louder per se.

Time to lodge a complaint then