British regulators move to quiet obnoxiously loud commercials

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TrentD @ May 13th 2008 4:22PM

That's great - loud commercials are such a pain.

It's even worse with HD, because you've got the wide dynamic range of Dolby Digital allowing quiet dialog and loud noises. The volume gets turned up to poperly hear the dialog. Then *BOOM* a commercial with all the sound compressed into the upper 10% of the dynamic range comes on and blows you out of the room.

Dolby had been working on some technologies to fix that problem, but nothing has really seemed to work.

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