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Actually, it's already illegal in the US: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_Advertisement_Loudness_Mitigation_Act http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_

by elarkin 12y ago

Actually, it's already illegal in the US: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_Advertisement_Loudness_Mitigation_Act http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_Advertisement_Loudne...

Karunamon 12y ago
In theory, yes, in practice, that just means the commercials are compressed to the single loudest part of the TV show they accompany. Net effect: Nil. The commercial still sounds louder than everything else.
- timc3 12y ago
  Not for much longer, one of the highlights of the past couple of years of NAB has been new algorithms and hardware to combat exactly this issue.
djloche 12y ago
On broadcast TV, or maybe on Cable TV. Advertisers play the same games at Spotify, Youtube, etc.