Re: OT: Billy Mays Here

On Aug 17, 6:42 pm, RicodJour <ricodj...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Aug 16, 2:22 pm, charlieb <charl...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Thank the stars for Mute buttons.  When someone yells at me to try
and get me to buy a product - I - a) hit the Mute button, b) not the
sponsors name and NEVER buy anything from them - ever.

Wasn't it Magnavox with John Cleese as spokesperson that advertised an
_automatic_ commercial volume "brake"?  Their TVs would prevent the
blaring of the commercial (obviously meant to catch your attention
while you're in the kitchen or john trying to make good use of the
commercial time).  I haven't seen that advertised in a while - is it
still around?  Did the powers that be tell Magnavox to cut it out as
it was cutting into their profits?

R

First of all, Magnavox (Philips) only built a 'detection' of an
increase in dynamic range on the advertiser's signal. The total sound
pressure was capped at the same dB level regardless if it was a signal
from a show or an ad. However, the ad signal had a quieter/lower noise
floor than the compressed sound of the crap they used to record TV
shows.
The ads 'sounded' louder, but in fact weren't. Now, with today's sound
tracks, there is a lot of dynamic range in both commercials as well as
the tracks which go with the sitcoms etc. So that little trick from
Maganavox no longer works, unless you're watching DeJaVue 's reruns of
Andy in Mayberry RFD AM/FM.
Many commercials *are* preceded by a scrambled signal which triggers
some kinda *** they use in broadcasting nowadays. Or so I'm told.
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