In article 6HWaj.262379$Fc.50372@attbi_s21,
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?

Mine has it but it sounds horrible, so it's never used. To be fair I'm an
audio type working in TV production so may be more critical than some.

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*I'm already visualizing the duct tape over your mouth

Dave Plowman London SW
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