I've wondered how much weight I could lose if I hid my remote control and forced myself to get up and manually change channels, adjust volume, etc.--particularly the volume: stand up, walk to the TV, turn the volume on commercials to a comfortable level, return to the couch, wait 3 minutes, stand up, walk to the TV, turn the volume up to a level you can understand what people are saying, return to the couch. Repeat as needed.
Wondered about it. Won't do it. But, man...my thumb strength is up (you don't want to thumb wrestle me).
Sure, there are other ways to deal with the louder-than-everything-else commercial volume, my dad's approach, for example, is to adjust for the commercial volume and then strain to hear 80% (at best) of the dialogue on whatever show you're watching. Reason #1 I don't watch anything I care about in his house.
But now, the government is stepping in to help--a frightening concept, indeed. Frankly, I think Congress has as much business messing around with this as they do College Football (read: None.At.All.), but man...it's hard not to be happy to read on USAToday's site:
The House passed has passed a bill that would bar TV commercials from being louder than the programs in which they appear.(the whole article is here)
The Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation Act (CALM) passed Tuesday on a voice vote, presumably expressed at a comfortable level.
It now goes to the Senate, which is considering an identical bill...
1 comments:
OH MY GOODNESS. Have they NOTHING better to do?
Studies show that commercials are really not louder than the main program, there's is usually much more going on (audio-wise) in the commercial and thus it seems louder. Also commercials are usually mixed differently than the programming, so it seems louder, but DB wise it isn't.
I heard from my boss that congress is going to dictate that retailers can no longer offer payment-free-term financing options. No longer will you be able to defer payments on a product.
MMmmmm socialism tastes like death!
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