Loud Commercials

Solutions Never Come From Gummint

“ The House on Thursday gave final congressional approval to a bill that would prevent advertisers from abruptly raising the volume to catch the attention of viewers wandering off when regular programming is interrupted. [CONGRESS BANS SHOUTING ON THE INTERNET!!!!!

I just learned that "volume" news from I HATE THE MEDIA.  For some reason I was under the impression that the FCC had long ago banned the practice of raising television commercials volume, but I could find no reference to it. Yes, it is my ox being gored here; something that will test the principles of even the staunchest libertarian, which I am not, but almost. I  farging HATE the practice, so am tempted say yell hooray for congress! First off, I have a hearing problem.  When I watch television with MoSup, she has the volume set at level 5.   To accommodate me she takes it up to between 17 and 23, just to give you an idea.  So at night, after she's gone to bed, the shows I'm watching at 23 that spike to level 50 during commercials don't just annoy me, they wake her and any babies in the house, which leads to more annoyances. But. When it comes to gummint interference into damn near anything that otherwise has a private sector solution, government ought stay the hell away. This wasn't as much of a problem with my old Panasonic telly.  It had a volume leveling option that this SONY does not seem to have. The TV Ears I had (they broke, sigh) automatically leveled the sound, so there are solutions outside of ratbastard gummint. If there's a market for them, they'll come.