Notes from Howard's Sabbatical from Working. The name comes from a 1998 lunch conversation. Someone asked if everything man knew was on the web. I answered "no" and off the top of my head said "Fidel Castro's favorite color". About every 6-12 months I've searched for this. It doesn't show up in the first 50 Google results (this blog is finally first for that search), AskJeeves says it's: red.
Saturday, October 02, 2010
Really? This is What They Were Doing?
The AP reported Senate votes to turn down volume on TV commercials "The Senate unanimously passed a bill late Wednesday to require television stations and cable companies to keep commercials at the same volume as the programs they interrupt."
It's nice to see that everyone can agree on something.
But I'm actually curious to see the details about this, since loudness is an ambiguous qualitative property based on perception rather than directly measurable physical properties. I'm thinking this won't have the effect people think it will, since if you have the volume set such that you can hear the dialogue of a show, it is still going to seem loud when it switches to the sensory overload based commercials. (Although, perhaps compared to a cartoon, there isn't much change).
2 comments:
Spend a day in my house listening to the Disney Channel and you appreciate the passing of this bill.
It's nice to see that everyone can agree on something.
But I'm actually curious to see the details about this, since loudness is an ambiguous qualitative property based on perception rather than directly measurable physical properties. I'm thinking this won't have the effect people think it will, since if you have the volume set such that you can hear the dialogue of a show, it is still going to seem loud when it switches to the sensory overload based commercials.
(Although, perhaps compared to a cartoon, there isn't much change).
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