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Is this loud, or just boosted loudness?
Where I live it has been illegal to up the volume for publicity, but not to cram it so full of loudness the clipping cuts your hair.
How many times do we have to get laws like this passed?
I swear I feel like all consumer protections have just been thrown out.
Louder commercials than TV have long been illegal, but they don’t enforce it. I know someone however that used to call or email or whatever the station to complain when they did it and they would stop for at least a bit because of those laws that went mostly unenforced.
But the less cynical more hopeful generations before us had passed those common sense laws and enforced them at one point.
Yeah they had their chance. Audio streaming services have (mostly) managed to figure out licensing agreements so all music is on all platforms.
Video streaming services all created their own walled gardens with various levels of advertising. Paramount even offered an advertising free tier but would happily advertise their own shows before other shows (noticed specifically on Star Trek shows but I imagine other providers do it too).
In the end… Fuck them. I give up on trying to figure out streaming video with all its complications. Back to the seven seas to procure my own.
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Not in the US, but I’d go even further and ban any ad mimicking an “alerting” kind of sound, especially starting with it.
Alarms, ringtones, even loud door knocking. Even worse, traffic sounds with car horns (rare, but some still do this shit somehow). I can’t believe some of the ads I get are still legal, deliberately stressing you to get your attention shouldn’t be.
Those car horn/siren radio ads are worse than Internet clickbait and dangerous. Hate them worse than extra loud ads.
Emergency sirens in radio ads (i.e. often played in the car) are the worst.
I can’t understand how people use any platforms with ads. Any ads are bad, but audio/video ads are the worst. I refuse to use any platform that tries to hijack my attention like that.
Punish the brands that do it with boycotts, bad reviews and naming/shaming online. Call out the creative production and call them hacks. That must be why they’re in advertising instead of making something someone would enjoy hearing.
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I worked on a crew that took lots of long interstate drives when “We Like to Party” by the Vengaboys was a big radio hit. Every time that goddamned horn blasted in that song when we were on the road, we all frantically looked around to see the big truck that was about to kill us only to realize it was just the stupid Vengabus.
Excuse me, I am finally glad I’m in California for a reason besides the food
You’re taking a lot for granted then. Seek out some broader perspective
On one hand, this, on the other hand, y’all are trying to destroy the entire concept of property rights by putting government-snitch DRM in 3D printers. You’ve got some work to do to crawl out of that net negative.
Yeah, this unfortunately. The Californian government is nuts
Happy Cake Day!
Imagine when your grandmother watches them, it is already turned up too loud.
Dude I got tinnitus. I watch louder than gran
Wowsers!
FINALLY
Focusing on the real problems of our time
Didn’t takeaway from anything else to do this. Grow up.
Hell yeah California. Suck it, Peacock.
The socialist shithole strikes again! Capitalists love loud ads.
WHAT
granny has the audio for her TV shows turned up because she can barely hear them. On the ad break the volume is insane 🙉
I HAVE A STRUCTURED SETTLEMENT AND I NEED CASH NOWWW
This was made illegal decades ago on network and cable television. About time it circled around to streaming.
one of the reasons i have captions on all the time. so i can keep the volume low enough during the program that the loud(er) advertisements don’t knock me out of my chair… or interrupt my nap.
Now do broadcast TV.
That was passed federally in 2010 under the CALM Act
How do viewers report violations?
Oh wow. In that case it is definitely not being followed on my local stations.
That’s because enforcement is largely based on viewer reports. And nobody bothers to report them.
Adblock and piracy is the only way.
Fuck Big Media
Now we just need to normalize audio between action sequences and normal conversation, that shit hella disproportionate a lot of the time.
This is why I watch with subtitles. I set the volume based on action scenes, and they are practically whispering in conversations.
I mean my audio system pulls the dialog into the center channel and puts everything else into the surround so it’s easier to pick out.
I am shit at picking out a voice in a crowd, so that helps me immeasurably.
This should be a nice option, not a necessity. Sound mixing should be done correctly to adapt to the average stereo system with an average sound level by default. Then people who can afford a better setup and an individual house can opt for the mixing that fits their situation.
