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Black Mirror. The ads pause if you're not paying attention.
by IMSAI8080 5y ago
Black Mirror. The ads pause if you're not paying attention.
- 0xmohit 5y agoThe TV places an order if you're paying attention.
- awestroke 5y agoSpotify ads pause if you turn down the volume
- Sebb767 5y agoDidn't Spotify also have extremely loud ads?
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- tomsmeding 5y agoOn the PC, it doesn't notice if you turn down the system volume instead of Spotify volume.
- Habgdnv 5y agoBlack Mirror V2.0 At the end of the 15min break, you must pass a quick exam about the products in the ads if you want to continue watching your sports game.
- encryptluks2 5y agoYou must pass an exam by buying the products to prove the propaganda worked
- matheusmoreira 5y agoHow long until they start torturing us with loud noise as punishment for having the audacity to ignore our corporate overlords?
- chrisandchris 5y agoWell, here in Switzerland, many channels (based on my subjective observations) lower the volume during the movie and increase it during ads. So it blows you away while ads run and you don't understand any word of the movie.
- pixl97 5y agoBILLY MAYS HERE Don't worry, we also do this in the US.
- conqueso 5y agoThat was common practice United States as well until it was made illegal around a decade ago with the Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation (CALM) Act. However that only applies to TV and I believe we're now living with the same problem all over again with streaming platforms - when I stream a YouTube video to my TV it definitely seems like the interstitial ads are louder than the content.
- toss1 5y agoThey've done that for decades They increase the volume of the adverts in comparison to the show. Often it is not subtle. Aside from the abysmal and declining information density of TV, it's a key reason I've not had antenna/cable for almost two decades now. The big screen is just a big monitor.
- citizenpaul 5y agoIts not increased that has been illegal for a long time. They found a way around it though and of course nothing is being done. Its called dynamic range compression. Basically they cram the entire ad at the maximum legal volume level so it sounds lounder.
- toss1 5y agoYes I did hear something about passing some limiting law, not sure when. Of course, as you mention, they can just peg the sound levels in across all frequency bands on all tracks in the ad, and yes, it does sound louder that way. Of course, if they actually want to get people's attention so they try to listen, they should whisper.