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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.]]>May 13th 2008 4:22PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/05/13/british-regulators-move-to-quiet-obnoxiously-loud-commercials/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/05/13/british-regulators-move-to-quiet-obnoxiously-loud-commercials/May 13th 2008 4:32PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/05/13/british-regulators-move-to-quiet-obnoxiously-loud-commercials/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/05/13/british-regulators-move-to-quiet-obnoxiously-loud-commercials/May 13th 2008 4:39PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/05/13/british-regulators-move-to-quiet-obnoxiously-loud-commercials/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/05/13/british-regulators-move-to-quiet-obnoxiously-loud-commercials/Paramount Comedy Channel is terrible for this,
Good thing is, this might actually happen. The TV regulators in this country do seem to have teeth. Thats why normal commercial TV is watchable in the UK unlike the US. Ad breaks every 6 minutes is horrible, it'd drive me mad!

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Also some kind of official HD standard that prevents stretching and labeling SD as HD]]>May 13th 2008 6:26PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/05/13/british-regulators-move-to-quiet-obnoxiously-loud-commercials/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/05/13/british-regulators-move-to-quiet-obnoxiously-loud-commercials/May 13th 2008 7:35PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/05/13/british-regulators-move-to-quiet-obnoxiously-loud-commercials/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/05/13/british-regulators-move-to-quiet-obnoxiously-loud-commercials/May 13th 2008 9:06PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/05/13/british-regulators-move-to-quiet-obnoxiously-loud-commercials/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/05/13/british-regulators-move-to-quiet-obnoxiously-loud-commercials/May 18th 2008 5:24PM