Program volume levels.
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Has anyone else noticed that many of the chanels have been playing with there volume levels lately.
Most of the UK channels and many of the sky movie chanels have been showing the programs at much reduced volume levels but the ad's and the infills at a higher level.
For normal viewing I would not have to take my TV much above 20 on the volume scale, yet I have just had to watch colateral on Sky Movies at 40. Same the other day with UK gold and Real time.
I thought there was a regulation about this as one of the chanels got fined recently for doing this.
Having to dive for the remote during add breaks and at the end of films is annoying me abit, especially watching late at night when the rest of the family is in bed.
SteveR
Most of the UK channels and many of the sky movie chanels have been showing the programs at much reduced volume levels but the ad's and the infills at a higher level.
For normal viewing I would not have to take my TV much above 20 on the volume scale, yet I have just had to watch colateral on Sky Movies at 40. Same the other day with UK gold and Real time.
I thought there was a regulation about this as one of the chanels got fined recently for doing this.
Having to dive for the remote during add breaks and at the end of films is annoying me abit, especially watching late at night when the rest of the family is in bed.
SteveR
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Saying that, I only watch the terrestrial broadcasters, who are regulated by OFCOM, so they would have to conform to the QC guidelines - which don't permit such vast volume ranges as your specifying, which would result in being fined.
Remember also that movies, in their natue, use a more diverse sound range then standard TV programmes, so they will always sound quieter when going to a loud ad break.
Although saying all that, Sky might just be wanting more people to buy new tv sets because of blown speakers.. you never know!
In an ideal world they would reduce it on the ads, thats never gunna happen, so just either turn the volume down on the ads like the majority of people or get sky+ and ff the ads! I do!
First of all I thought it was my amp until I realised that all other sources hadn't changed. On my Denon I usually have things set to around -30db but recently it has been about -25db on all channels via the Astra 2 satellite (all normal channels).
So yes, there is a diffrence and I'm glad that somebody else has picked up on it!
I usually have to up the 'volume' when watching HD channels compared to SD ones.
Everytime a break comes up it's a scramble for the remote to turn the volume down before it rattles the windows,
The volume level of the programming is painfully low