When will the law go into effect that makes it so commercials will be the same volume as the show you are watching?

You know, they are afraid we are gonna leave the room and want us to hear it wherever we go, but I just mute it. If they’d keep the volume the same, I might actually listen.

Ikr, my thoughts exactly

OMG, I hadn’t heard, but I so hope they pass such a law! Drives me batty. But can you imagine this brick-wall congress passing that kind of restriction on the corporations that buy and sell TV commercials? I’d be happily astonished.

Actually there are such laws in Europe - with no effect whatsoever. Because the damn commercial makers trick it.

As every movie has an average level of noise, they modify the frequencies and silence some frequencies but make others loud. So the machine-measurable average noise of the commercial is equal to the other program, but it still sounds louder to the audience. -_-

My personal solution to is this - I abolished watching live TV completely. I record what I want to see, and I have a recorder that removes all commercials automatically and saves them on a computer hard disk. And then I forget watching the stuff and just collect it on my HD…. And read a damn book or hang out at FunAdvice. Only when I really feel like it, I sometimes do watch movies or TV series that are on my computer - much later than they are actually aired. And often 4 or 5 episodes of the same show in a row. This is especially cool with shows that tend to have cliffhanger endings. :)

Unfortunately, “loud” commercials will always be with us. As long ago as 1963 I remember the old, long-gone Australian Electronics magazine “Radio and Hobbies” was talking aobut the subjuct then. I rarely watch live TV but, when we do we make sure the Remote Control belonging to the Digital Set Top Box is close by. It has a very handy “mute” button.