Chuck wrote:
Here in Nashville--and I suppose many other places--there are a lot of
'local option' commercials. IOW, there's a commercial on the satellite
feed, but it gets pre-empted by one chosen by the cable operator.

Here, the audio levels on these local options commercials is all over the
place; usually WAY too loud, but sometimes (blessedly) barely audible.
You can tell they're local option because either the subject is a local
business, or sometimes you see just a 'blip' of another commercial before
they cut to the replacement.

Very annoying when you're listening to a movie with the volume up, or you
have the TV on as background to fall asleep by....

jak

That's the same problem we have and it drives us crazy! Does anyone have a
newer TV with the built-in AVL feature, and how well does it work?


You can call your provider. So far, I haven't gotten that far, but
IIRC, there are regulations about relative volume...might not apply for
cable, but over the air....

The issue is with the (less than) technical help the cable company (in
my case ComCast) employs to drop in the commercials.

jak