Half of lemmy who have either been pirating or freebooting since the mid 90's:
I love this idea but nowadays I’m actively looking for commercials in many shows—watching Sealab or Family Guy or Space Ghost or super old Pokémon and the like is infinitely better with original commercials from the late 90s or early 2000s, ripped in mediocre quality from an SP VHS.
Jeez, this has been going on for so long that parodies of these sorts of malicious practices are nearly a decade old. It’s about time. As usual, California has to be the voice of reason.
Only a decade? I recall legal action surrounding this shit in the '90s.
That was for tv and also maybe radio? Technically, this is different. Also, I don’t know of any parodies of tv broadcasts with malicious audio ads.
Think yer link's broken.
It's missing the https:// at the beginning of the URL.
And somehow that leads it to an internal link. Noted and fix’d
I had no idea they were turning up the volume
WHAT? adjusts my hearing aid
The first thing my wife and I did this morning when we woke up was turn on streaming shit and check to see if they actually did this...
We of course live in California and I am happy to report that the first commercial that played was loud as hell. My wife immediately started trying to find the phone numbers so that we could call and complain lol
When you use so much ad blocking that you didnt even realize these things had commercial breaks
Okay, so I have no idea about streaming services, but commercials on broadcast TV never had the volume increased but the compression.
(I love getting lost in details so apologies if any of this comes off condescending.) Compression works by making the quieter parts louder, without distorting the louder parts.
THINK of a SENTENCE where SOME of the WORDS are LOUD and OTHER words are QUIETER.
compression works by squishing down all the loud parts, then bringing everything back up to full volume, so the previous sentence would become:
THINK OF A SENTENCE WHERE SOME OF THE WORDS ARE LOUD AND OTHER WORDS ARE QUIETER.
Now, the loud parts didn’t become louder. What happened is that the quieter parts got louder. You lose the dynamic, but gain volume. If you think it would just be exhausting, you’re correct - even at low volumes, you can get a sense of ear fatigue when audio is heavily compressed.
Now, if you want to know why movies have quiet parts where you can’t hear shit and loud parts that are way louder, this is called dynamics. Artistically, you very much want this for the same reason you want quiet parts and loud parts in classical music. If everything is constantly loud, the dramatic moments won’t feel as impactful.
“But wait, I don’t enjoy that, I like having my TV at a reasonable volume!” Yup, me too. It’s fucking annoying. Mixing is done often on high quality speakers, loud volume, so you can get every detail. Most home setups dont have that nuance, and most people don’t care. Until execs can actually get proven that they’ll make more money by having consistent compression, you’re shit out of luck. You’ll probably have to get your own compression, either through software or hardware.
Source: used to work in sound engineering.
People want Christopher Nolan films to sound like compressed commercials. 🤭
I notice the sports betting commercials they engineer the sound to project the voices in loud environments like a bar. Its annoying as hell at home.
I especially hate this with music streaming services. They tryna blow out my speakers!!
To compensate, they'll be turning it up by twice as much in all other states starting today.
Yeah I'm afraid of Americans
I'm afraid of the world
I'm afraid I can't help it
I'm afraid I can't
I'm afraid of Americans
I wish a federal law would pass, but we all know that’ll never happen! So, argggghhhhh
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