Comments on: Television Volume

By: Super Obvious Man Man Man!!!

Super Obvious Man Man Man!!! — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 00:13:26 +0000

Or you could just not watch fox….Hmmmmm…..pondering…

By: Jardon's Translator

Jardon's Translator — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 00:10:35 +0000

Jardon says: Ooooooh! Buuuuuuuuuuuurn!

By: Jardon's Translator

Jardon's Translator — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 00:08:32 +0000

Right?! Or you could just laugh hysterically and roll on the floor laughing. No exaggeration.

By: Your Evil Twin Jardon

Your Evil Twin Jardon — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 00:07:19 +0000

Право?! Или Вы могли только смеяться, истерично катясь на смехе пола. Никакое приувеличение.

By: Terell Chisholm

Terell Chisholm — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 00:00:50 +0000

It’s a bird, it’s a plane… No! It’s SUPER CAPTAIN OBVIOUS MAN MAN MAN!!!

By: honestly

honestly — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 08:58:51 +0000

its the movies. and it sucks. It needs to go from like 50 to around 2 in .5 seconds. We always forget its on FX to. UGH

By: Tom4000

Tom4000 — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:59:47 +0000

TV companies turn down television programmes, and the Commercials are at maximum capacity, that is why they appear louder.

By: xan499

xan499 — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 08:49:00 +0000

BILLY MAYS

By: Lambchops

Lambchops — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 17:04:59 +0000

Now up in the Big Infomercial in the Sky ;_;

By: hahahahahahah

hahahahahahah — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 18:18:53 +0000

It’s because you go to fridge when commercials start. They make sure you hear it all the way there.

By: MasterKitteh

MasterKitteh — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 15:40:51 +0000

It was Billy May’s fault

By: Jon

Jon — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 22:14:08 +0000

Must be a Comcast subscriber…

By: asYa

asYa — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 06:37:35 +0000

So true.

By: i hate everything

i hate everything — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 03:05:56 +0000

i have Cox with the HD feature so even though it’s in high definition, there are still downsides.

By: lola

lola — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 00:52:39 +0000

I does suck, I go asleep watching Steven Colbert at 10:30pm and wake up at 3 am to girls gone wild, can’t they be secret strippers parading as women that might actually sleep w. the men that buy the DVD’s without the loud voice-over?

By: thisnamehasbeenusedbefore

thisnamehasbeenusedbefore — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 23:27:27 +0000

Good one.

By: Uh No

Uh No — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 18:24:20 +0000

He breaks the speakers

By: Karnage

Karnage — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 14:36:26 +0000

The reason for the difference in sound between show and commercial is that commercials can not go any louder than the loudest part of the show, if you watch something with loud explosions, the commercial can get as aloud as that explosion did. Watch quieter shows and this wont be an issue LOL

By: Drazen

Drazen — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 10:27:57 +0000

Is there a difference between older TV’s and newer TV’s? Mine is from pre-1996, and one of either two things has to be happening:

(1) Everyone in the programs I watch is speaking in a barely audible whisper; or
(2) The volume on the commercials is set to “shrieking banshee.”

I’m solving it by not regularly watching any new TV shows than what I already do, and if I can do something for free with On Demand, or get it on a network’s web site — I just do that. At least then it’s less of an auditory bombardment (although the commercials still come across as way too loud — actually, possibly even louder. At least they’re shorter, though).

By: Junkyard

Junkyard — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 10:14:35 +0000

I think you’re lost, madam. Turn left at the end of the corridor, Lolcats is third room on the right. No problem – have a nice day.

By: Khaliera

Khaliera — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 08:18:13 +0000

I’ve got DirecTV, and I find that just as loud as the commercials are my local stations. (Switching between Boomerang and my local PBS affiliate for my daughter is fun in the morning while my husband’s still trying to sleep.)

By: Shancey

Shancey — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 02:33:38 +0000

That’s your advice? Watch crappy TV?

Oh, or mute and un-mute everytime

By: MeaslyMender

MeaslyMender — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 05:01:44 +0000

That doesn’t stop Billy Mays…

By: i hate everything

i hate everything — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 04:47:51 +0000

well, this is very true that commercials are louder then the show itself. i was watching American Idol and the volume was so low that i had to turn the tv up to almost maximum volume and then a commercial came along and it was blasting the music in the commercial.

By: techphets

techphets — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 02:46:27 +0000

But that’s for the hearing impaired. I get offended reading that when I’m using it because I like to read.

I also hate reading “this movie has been formated to fit your screen.” With the umpteen zillion different formats out there it is quite rare for a picture to properly fit my screen.

By: Hombretoobs Bonsoon

Hombretoobs Bonsoon — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 17:25:56 +0000

There’s a simple way to get around this – watch a government-funded channel, like the ABC or BBC, or press the mute button.

By: giraffe giraffe

giraffe giraffe — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 14:16:19 +0000

mhmm. and fox.

By: whitey138

whitey138 — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 08:39:14 +0000

well at least the people that know whats going on agree with me. im an audio major in college and nobody seems to believe me when i explain all the details about it. i think my tv has a compressor in it too with a slow release on it. sometimes something really loud happens and then i cant here much of anything for a few seconds. its really annoying.

another annoying use of compressors is death magnetic…all im going to say about that.

By: Sunny

Sunny — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 07:53:29 +0000

Or all caps.

By: Dexaan

Dexaan — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 05:35:13 +0000

They’ll just use a bigger font in the commercials.

By: ie

ie — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 04:51:51 +0000

Sins wi deeregyoolated efrythin, teh fcc dusnt kare. the tv surfis pruhvidrs kan doo ennythin tehy lyke.

http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/consumerfacts/backgroundnoise.html

we r gong to dvr efreythin and pis on teh komurshuls.

By: Dafrety

Dafrety — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 04:42:19 +0000

If you have a new TV then it should be pretty easy to find it in the audio settings. Volume Normalization, standarization, single audio, StableSound, etc.

By: Bix Nood

Bix Nood — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 04:08:03 +0000

HI! BILLY MAYS HERE!

By: Tom

Tom — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 03:04:38 +0000

Amen to that my humor-brother

By: Kristian

Kristian — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 02:13:27 +0000

….Maybe it seems that way because you’re falling asleep…

By: Greg

Greg — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 00:25:49 +0000

There has never been a truer chart in the history of GraphJam.

Especially FX. Once I was watching “Walk the Line” on that channel, it was so quiet I had to turn my television up all the way and the second it went to commercial it was like and explosion was taking place. D:

By: redswinglinestapler

redswinglinestapler — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 00:13:25 +0000

no.. its true. they compress radio at 20:1 with a 2 second release time. if a song has a super long pause in it, you can hear the compressor open up. im an audio professional.. i know this sort of thing.

everyone wants the loudest song on the radio, so its already compressed. same with commercials. lately, ive been BLASTED by some commercials. it pisses me off. something tells me the new HDtv’s have something different in there regulating the volume.

By: Jefoid

Jefoid — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 23:44:04 +0000

I’m sorry, I have heard this explanation a dozen times and I just don’t buy it. Commercials are louder, not mixed differently. If it waddles like a duck and quacks like a duck, it’s probably a duck.

By: Jefoid

Jefoid — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 23:40:24 +0000

Smug Bastards.

…oh wait, you said that.

By: Brinkley

Brinkley — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 21:39:14 +0000

Wow… my mom was JUST saying this yesterday… weird, but true.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 21:24:32 +0000

I’ve got to agree.

I mean I”m sitting in an apartment at 1am watching a tv show or a movie. I’ve got CC on and the volume of the show to *exactly* where i feel comfortable. I can hear, I can understand, but I won’t wake anybody up.

Next thing you know I’m being screamed at as the TV wants to know if me or my once-sleeping neighbors/room mate would like to see some girls going wild.

By: Jools

Jools — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 20:30:32 +0000

If it makes you feel any better, it’s not just the US, this happens in the UK too.

And it could be just my perception but it seems a lot worse late in the evening. Maybe they’re trying to wake up all those who fall asleep in front of the telly.

By: Jordan

Jordan — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 20:17:43 +0000

tards

By: Dex

Dex — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 19:57:38 +0000

I know this site isn’t built to show off hilariously exaggerated graphs or anything…

By: whitey138

whitey138 — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 19:52:14 +0000

the sound volume is the same. they just compress the crap out of the volume of the commercials so that the quiet parts are always as loud as the loudest parts of the programming. the FCC doesnt allow anything on TV to be above a certain decibel rating. its the same with radio. they compress the crap out of all the music to “make it sound better” as in its right in your face. it kills the dynamic range.

By: ccuto

ccuto — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 19:47:33 +0000

billy mayes ftl

By: Rhymanimal

Rhymanimal — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 19:31:51 +0000

Is it just my service, or does anyone notice this especially with FX… I have to crank the volume up to 50 during the movie then brace myself for deafness when the commercials come on. I cant seem to find the mute button fast enough. WTF FX?

By: jessica777

jessica777 — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 19:19:32 +0000

what is this world coming to??

By: KRH

KRH — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 18:08:50 +0000

I am a smug bastard that doesn’t own one too.

By: Drew

Drew — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 17:50:00 +0000

Oh my god! Somebody exaggerated numbers in order to make a funny graph! How could they do that!?!?!