Re: Harmonizer question?

Charmed Snark 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.

There's some new legislation in the US Congress that's supposed
to outlaw this sort of thing. Let's hope.

Paul P
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