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Stations deserve to have commercials zapped
15 Jul 2006 22:09:57 -0700
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RichA...
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Why should the consumer have to keep turning their volume levels up and
down
because the slimy station programmers turn up commercial volumes by
10dB or more?
videonovels...
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(1) They don't turn up the volume. The normal sound bandwidth is
20-20,000 cycles per second, so you can hear anything from the lowest
bass to the highest whistle.
BUT advertisers set the volume to zero for the entire spectrum, except
for the narrow range of vocals (as I recall, 4000-6000) and focus all
the sound in that area. So the *average* volume is the SAME across the
entire spectrum, but it *seems* louder due to the narrowed bandwidth of
the signal.
(2) If commercials did not exist, neither would TV stations. You
prefer to have static on your television?
What a dumbass.
RichA...
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"Seems" = B.S. I've measured it with a sound meter. Up to 10dB
difference
C or A weighted. The net result is you have to turn it down then up
again once the commercial ends.
I prefer to punish anyone who does it by zapping commercials until they
stop it
or the World is free of "company men" like you.
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F--- 'em.
Steven L....
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You convinced me. Just buy DVDs from now on.
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