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Serious people avoid this shit-show by simply not watching commercial television, except through DVDs or subscription downloads.

Kliment 12y ago
Many DVDs still have ads, unskippable "look, here is this super loud 20 second fade in of the distributor logo" sections and very loud menus. They also have mandatory unskippable "warnings" about how evil you are and how you are forbidden from watching the film on an oil platform. The only effective way around those is ripping and re-recording if you want to play it on anything but a computer with non-crippled software.
SyneRyder 12y ago
I've only just subscribed to Netflix (just arrived in Australia), and I'm finding the dynamic range on movies to be a far bigger problem. On commercial TV here the sound range is compressed/normalized enough during the shows & ads that I never have to tweak the volume. But Netflix movies seem to have 4x the dynamic range - I have to turn the volume up twice as loud to hear whispered dialog, and turn it down to 1/4 the volume for a car crash / fight scene. I've had to resort to using headphones when watching at night instead.
tomjen3 12y ago
This. I refuse to watch commercials that interrupt me in any way or where I cannot pause rewind or otherwise control the content around them (this rules out broadcast tv and radio). It makes we irrationally angry and that is just not worth it. Even muting the tv isn't good enough, because the ads still interrupt the experience of watching. I read earlier today google congratulating themselves on people having watch 100 million video ads on youtube and how this proved that people are willing to watch ads that interest them. Thats a load of bullshit, because you can't actually skip the ads until they have played for some time, and if you do the next video is going to have another ad (usually worse). Everybody I talked with hates those ads with a passion - usually youtube is the reason they finally install an adblocker. Of course if you go the illegal route you get 1080p with no ads and super high quality.

Kliment 12y ago

Many DVDs still have ads, unskippable "look, here is this super loud 20 second fade in of the distributor logo" sections and very loud menus. They also have mandatory unskippable "warnings" about how evil you are and how you are forbidden from watching the film on an oil platform. The only effective way around those is ripping and re-recording if you want to play it on anything but a computer with non-crippled software.

SyneRyder 12y ago

I've only just subscribed to Netflix (just arrived in Australia), and I'm finding the dynamic range on movies to be a far bigger problem. On commercial TV here the sound range is compressed/normalized enough during the shows & ads that I never have to tweak the volume. But Netflix movies seem to have 4x the dynamic range - I have to turn the volume up twice as loud to hear whispered dialog, and turn it down to 1/4 the volume for a car crash / fight scene. I've had to resort to using headphones when watching at night instead.

tomjen3 12y ago

This. I refuse to watch commercials that interrupt me in any way or where I cannot pause rewind or otherwise control the content around them (this rules out broadcast tv and radio). It makes we irrationally angry and that is just not worth it. Even muting the tv isn't good enough, because the ads still interrupt the experience of watching. I read earlier today google congratulating themselves on people having watch 100 million video ads on youtube and how this proved that people are willing to watch ads that interest them. Thats a load of bullshit, because you can't actually skip the ads until they have played for some time, and if you do the next video is going to have another ad (usually worse). Everybody I talked with hates those ads with a passion - usually youtube is the reason they finally install an adblocker. Of course if you go the illegal route you get 1080p with no ads and super high quality.