Mark Lanctot;365645 Wrote: > Believe it or not (I don't believe it sometimes myself!), broadcasters > are actually mandated NOT to increase volume for commercials. It's > actually against the law! > > So instead they compress the audio of commercials to the maximum extent > possible - which is exactly what a lot of Internet radio streams do. > > Does anyone have one of these TVs with the feature activated? Does it > reduce the volume of commercials?
My Samsung TV has the "Smart Sound" feature (whatever THEY call it) and I don't notice much difference with it on or off. But I did use an external S-Video switcher (SIMA) a couple of years ago which had an audio expander/compander feature and it worked really well. It was really nice when I was watching late night TV and I didn't want to wake up my wife. I could keep the volume low and still hear all of the dialog. I would love to have something that works that well for my existing TV. -- NFLnut ------------------------------------------------------------------------ NFLnut's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13180 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=55780 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
