Re: Harmonizer question?

Charmed Snark <snark@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

When we had small children, it was such a pain when movies
switched to commercials. TVs should really include a audio
compressor for that situation. You'd turn the program up
so you could hear the wispered lines in a movie and then
be blasted by a highly compressed series of commercials.

The reason the commercials are so loud in the first place is that they
*are* compressed more than the programmed material. So if you add
another compressor, you'll make the programs louder but compress the
commercials even more!

I'm afraid that this is one of those "Pandora's Box" issues. Once out,
you can't get it back in.

On the other hand, modern remotes have mute buttons -- for a reason!


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