Loud Commercials and Srs Truvolume coming soon?

[Joewee]

I remember a while back this being mentioned and was wondering if anyone
had any updates on it. I am assuming this will be an update to some receivers.

SRS Sounding Off

http://gadgetress.freedomblogging.c...uld-end-annoyingly-loud-tv-commercials/22969/

 

[whatchel1]

Working on it

I remember a while back this being mentioned and was wondering if anyone
had any updates on it. I am assuming this will be an update to some receivers.

SRS Sounding Off

SRS Labs’ gadget could end annoyingly loud TV commercials - The Gadgetress : The Orange County Register

They are still working on it. It hasn't come down yet.

 

[kvnfl]

Most current Home Theater Receivers have a "Dolby Midnight Mode" that limits and levels volume.

 

[Jim S.]

Most current Home Theater Receivers have a "Dolby Midnight Mode" that limits and levels volume.

If it's compressing the dynamic range on all programs, then no thanks. No sane person wants that. We only want the volume of the commercials reduced to the average volume of the other programs.

 

[jlong27]

If it's compressing the dynamic range on all programs, then no thanks. No sane person wants that. We only want the volume of the commercials reduced to the average volume of the other programs.

I've said this before in other words.

I use the "night mode" function when necessary. If whatever dish implements is on all the time I hope there is a way to turn it off because it will ruin movies.

 

[JimK2]

Most current Home Theater Receivers have a "Dolby Midnight Mode" that limits and levels volume.

Sony tv's have "steady sound" setting

 

[vaylon]

I quit watching live tv for just this same reason.
Much easier to just record and skip the trash like "extenze"

 

[ralfyguy]

I quit watching live tv for just this same reason.
Much easier to just record and skip the trash like "extenze"

That's what I'm doing. 99% of the stuff I watch is recorded. I sometimes start recording something that's 60 minutes long and about 20-30 minutes later I start the recording from the beginning and can comfortably skip all the trash without catching up to LIVE mode before the show is over. Works excellent on prime time stuff like House, Fringe, CSI etc.

 

[kvnfl]

If it's compressing the dynamic range on all programs, then no thanks. No sane person wants that. We only want the volume of the commercials reduced to the average volume of the other programs.

One hundred percent in agreement. That is my wife does not know about Midnight Modes existence. Unfortunately, the only way to level out the volume for (insert target) is through compression. Does not matter if the compression is done by Dolby or SRS labs, it requires compression