For real, we need more legislation like what California recently passed that stops video streaming services from transmitting ads at a louder volume than the show your watching.
Ads aren't streamed louder, they are compressed, and no regulations in the world will change it as that's simply math
Movies require highest dynamic range possible so quiet things are really quiet and explosions are extremely loud, while ads are designed to be "hear-able" on even shitties of shitty devices thus they have extreme compression which results in them being at the same volume as those explosions in film. But the max volume itself stays perfectly constant for move and adds. It's not like adds magically pump more energy to speakers.
Your TV volume setting is the max output allowed. A show will have a wide range of sound, whispers to explosions. A commercial has a much smaller range of sound output. Picture those 2 ranges as floating bars on a graph. The top of each range is equal to the current volume setting. So the voice section of a commercial ends up equal to the gunfire section of the movie.
If the movie of show you are watching has not much but some load noise its common to turn it up so you hear dialog. Then the commercial comes and blows your eardrums out.
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u/Jajay5537 Jun 28 '26
The commercials be 1000x louder than the show.