Talk about spooky

[SeaCat]

I was sitting at the computer about tne minutes ago when I heard the screech and crunch of a terrible accident. It sounded like it was coming into the living room.

I reacted. I was out of my seat and heading out the door with a flashlight in one hand and my Jump Kit in the other. From the sounds of it this one sounded bad. When I reached the road out front I stopped and looked for the accident. All I could see was traffic flowing nice and smooth. WTF?

When I get back inside my wife is still sitting on the couhc looking at me like I've lost it. That was when I realized a couple of things.

A) My was watching the TV and had run the sound through the surround sound system.

B) My wife had the volume up a bit.

C) A commercial for an insurance company had come on.

D) That commercial as so many are had the sound boosted.

E) That commercial had started out with a clip of a horrendous accident.

I near had a heart attack over a blasted commercial.

Ah well, what can you do?

Cat

 

[rgraham666]

I read something recently about a new law that is requiring advertisers to keep sound levels to the same level of shows or some such.

Ah, a little Googling and there we go: the CALM Act.

So that may not happen again, Cat.

 

[Handley_Page]

I read something recently about a new law that is requiring advertisers to keep sound levels to the same level of shows or some such.

Ah, a little Googling and there we go: the CALM Act.

So that may not happen again, Cat.

You think ?
"But we turned it down by at least 1dB, sir".

 

[TxRad]

If it's like the old law it still won't do any good. They can only be as loud as the show. Right! They pick the loudest sound bite from the section and set the sound of the commercial to that. A gun shot is always louder than speech.

Now to read the new law to see if it's any better.

 

[Weird Harold]

If it's like the old law it still won't do any good. They can only be as loud as the show. Right! They pick the loudest sound bite from the section and set the sound of the commercial to that. A gun shot is always louder than speech.

Now to read the new law to see if it's any better.

Who receives their television content from sources governed by the FCC?

I seldom hear loud commercials on the Local Broadcast channels but I hear LOTS of them on the cable-only channels -- especially those local commercials that are inserted and adjusted BY the cable company. That cable company control of local content sometime results in the same commercial running back-to-back with different volume levels -- a network content version and a locally sold version.

 

[cloudy]

You think ?
"But we turned it down by at least 1dB, sir".

But it goes to 11....

 

[Weird Harold]

But it goes to 11....

In this context, it should be "but the amp only goes up to 9!" Shouldn't it?