This should really fall under infringement of privacy, because that’s what they’re doing – the consumer pays the cable/satellite companies to provide a service, i.e. to view television programs & movies, they’re not paying to watch the commercials or advertisements, that unfortunately is burdened upon the consumer by the networks. It’s not bad enough that we’re paying astronomical amounts to the cable/satellite co’s. yet have all that garbage-logos/promos trashing half the viewing screen, so distracting you can’t possibly enjoy watching TV anymore, and that the networks are airing more commercial time than program time. The one network I recently ‘timed’ was airing 4 minutes of the program, then 5-6 minutes of commercials, and then 4-5 minutes of the program, etc. It’s absolutely disgusting! Then to add insult to injury they have to BLAST the commercials so loud that it wakes the dead! I couldn’t imagine having little children – trying to get some relaxation & TV time after putting your kids to bed, you might as well forget it! The few times I nodded off while the TV was left on & then practically jumped out of my skin when a commercial came on so loudly that I couldn’t stop shaking because of how it frightened me out of a sound sleep. I’m in the habit now of taking the remote with me everywhere – to the kitchen, the loo, for when the commercials come on – it’s ridiculous!

Why is it that we can report a disturbance of the peace or a neighbor’s dog barking, or a late night loud party, etc., yet there is no law for someone to do it to you right in your own home without your consent or permission? There has to be something the general public can do – it’s WAY out of hand!!

Yes adds are my bane of discontent. Many businesses pay for the adverts to be louder so that they can hit everyone with their sales – due to most people leaving the room during advert time. It’s a pain in the *** ploy and i’m sick of it. My mute button works overtime.

Sheree

And I delete the program altogether because the DVR function is the only power that I do have in the right not to be forced to watch the commercial.

Now the DVR programmers are manipulating it so that your DVR will function to screw with your power to fast forward (or advance) the commercial (which is insane to force people to watch a commercial that way.

Its like consumer stalking to actually manipulate this function which I pay good money for. But the DVR has changed the entire way that I have watched cable. I hardly ever watch anything on real time.

You will find this problem on the AMC channel, Me Too, ME TV, and those types of peripheral channels and these stations are raising the “nerve bar” toward the more popular stations. Sick little agreements with your cable/dish provider and the advertisements. Now that is George Orwellian control.

Don’t worry about using old terms. I catch myself when I type out my rants. I am still using the word “tape” instead of “record” (because they outted the VCR so quickly). How funny that you mention that. I guess we all will do this as a whole and that we kind of ‘date” ourselves. I know that I do. Innocent enough.

No, I am Queen Rant. Its terrible I know.

But they sure as s*** just are as helpless as a kitten to something they make money from any way. Why should they turn it down.

Their other department, you know, the one call IRS, makes sicking percentages off of the commercials that are aired and the money we spend helping them to keep it coming.

The government benefits as much as the products being sold and advertised. Not only that, THEY control what we buy as well to control us.

Those pharmaceutical commercials are funded by our government and goodness knows what else. They make billions from advertisements per company who advertises them.

I knew about that compression loudness crap since 2005 when the SyFY channel as well as admitted that the advertisements are deliberately LOUD so that we cannot miss a thing when we need to urinate or to grab that extra soda.

Yes, my comment sounds angry and is angry towards the FCC AND these piglets for product sales.

I hope that they read this because they need to know that WE KNOW that they are damned liars and they can control what they want to control when they want to control it. How in the F are they going to even say that this is all in our “individual hearing” when we are ALL telling these corporate bitches to turn the s*** down? How are millions of consumers coming up with the same complaint.

I hate being manipulated with effing answers such as “well, it’s OUR problem”. In the 1980s, I know that my hearing was perfect because I was a teenager and never once were the commercials as LOUD as being in the middle of a WAR or in a institution for the insane. We are not just hearing things folks, these ass holes want to control every aspect of your life and put you in debt and give you a heart attack and then have the nerve to advertise for pharmaceuticles and debt relief.

Maybe we would not be in DEBT if they were NOT appealing to the masses to keep them wanting s*** that they say that we need. More debt + More Commercials+ Louder Commercials? Who is running this s*** here? This is insulting our intelligence in more than just this way. Literally, don’t buy it!

I mean, to make my case here, I explained to my husband that there is a NAME for the loudness that we are assaulted by and when I typed it in the Google search there were over seven pages of the same explaination which means that not only is this website’s comments asking and confirming the same problem.

BUT you can pretty damned well guess that for every website there will be 10s to 100s of people like us verifying that THIS IS NOT OUR INDIVIDUAL hearing range, however, that this is a COLLECTIVE NOTICEABLE F****ING IRRITANT and it is wrong and invasive!.

If I want to buy something, then, I have the right to make that decision with out it following me to another room or manipulating my decision making thereby pissing me off to the point that I am not interested in the effing thing.

In fact, I have boycotted 9 channels thus far because of too MANY commercials or those with that LOUD effing RETARDED hearing level. And then they have the NERVE to pack in 10+ commercials every five minutes.

Who in the F is going to purchase all of these things in this ECONOMY?

Then they have the nerve to decieve us when they are advertising. Does anyone take responsibility for any effing thing any more????

When I was growing up, I remembered when you could call a TV station directly to ask questions or to comment on anything because it was a time when people had a moral sense of responsibility. SO now, it is no one’s fault for anything.

I do not know how many of you have subscribe to Comcast, but to tell you how damned idiotic advertising has become, is that when you watch a film from the “On Demand” setting, that you are practically rear ended and up the ASS to watch at least FOUR commercial (repeatedly) throughout the damned movie! Is that nuts or what? Also commercials used to be where they did not show the same s*** in every commercial set.

Thanks to these cup-rattling begging advertisers, I HATE that effing Dannino commercial or any commercial about soccer effing Moms driving a new vehicle or wigging out over their carpet or flooring, or Sarah Jessica Parker tossing her wig around for that hair dye or that damned GENERIC Pro-Active commercial (the longest f**** commercial in TV history), that stupid weight watchers, Nutra-system and how many times will they advertise “Sherlock Holmes”? Or advertise a damned movie while we are trying to WATCH a movie, How about that damned Peach Tree, Roni Damned Deusch ,JG Wentworth! YUUUCCHHH! And these are a few of the LOUDEST commercials.

I hate commercials because they teach America to develop hearing impairments and ADHD symptoms.

You can hardly watch a program with out watching that psycho house wife stick a magnifying glass in her toilet bowl to watch the germs in her toilet go by.

I mean, not only is it LOUD, but embarrassing to show Americans having Obssessive Compulsive Disorder over her friggin’ toilet.

On top of that, commericials insidiously teach Americans to develop phobias and other cognitive disorders and have the nerve to use a tug boat horn to drive you to buy some silly s***.

Let me tell you, her answer is NOT in that LYSOL bottle, but the FOLLOWING commercial will SCREAM to us what her problem truly is. Next, she’ll need CYMBAlTA because she is so morbidly depressed spraying down that kitchen with GLADE sticks and candles. I only recall these commercials because it is probably like those prisoners in Abu-Garib listening to that s*** 70 hours a week with out mercy and that Meow-Mix Bitch of a Cat!

The station or the program DOES NOT need to air THAT many commecials or DOES NOT need them to be so LOUD.

I have broken our remote for trying to adjust the sound for every commercial. Yes, all of the programs ARE considerably lower in range than the Advertisments.

So double F the commercials and the garbage crap that you sell to a certain group of people anyway and F the FCC for using partiality with your damned laws and regulations.

Pretty soon, the advertisments WILL LOSE their audience all together and learn how to service PEOPLE instead of PRODUCT and give a damn about the HUMAN EFFING RACE.

Okay, I’m done! Thank you SCREEN RANT for ACKNOWLEDGING this issue and for allowing me to Truly Rant! Only in America can any of us get things off our chests as we can. I feel much better now.

Not true. The audio levels are RECORDED at the same levels as tv shows, but they are later PROCESSED using a Maximizer or a Brickwall limiter during mixdown. The recording process is the same.

Anyone know?

Hate Product Placement? Here’s One Culprit

Vic

Its called Subterfuge. And there’s companies that design comercials exclusivly with these hidden messages in them.

Its pure evil…

Every single thing you see in a movie or tv show is there because the maker paid for it to be there.. . The Truman Show just mocked the process that’s been in place for years.

Sorry .. but we’ve already been besieged there!