On Dec 13, 7:01*pm, nestork wrote:
I'm glad to see that they're finally getting rid of those loud
commercials. *It was annoying to have to continuously adjust the volume
to account for the commercials being louder than the rest of the
programming.

Does anyone know how many minutes of commercials TV networks are allowed
to run during the day. *Sometimes you sit down to watch TV and there's
nothing but commercials on.

--
nestork

the problem is that the the "solution" the stations are using is
instead of lowering the commercial average loudness to match the
shows, they are compressing the shows to make them louder to match the
commercials so now EVERYTHING IS COMPRESSED AND LOUD ALL THE TIME and
sounds terrible even if you turn down the volume. Its not about the
peak levels, those are well controlled, its more about the density of
the sound.

Google "loudness wars" the same thing has happened to CDs in the
recording industry.

Mark