Hasta La Gadget!

Don’t you hate it when you are lying on the couch lazily watching a TV show, and then BOOM it turns to a commercial and kicks the volume up to an ear blasting level, which leaves you fumbling for the remote to turn it down. Then, you have to readjust the sound when your show comes back on and again for all the commercial breaks that follow. What a pain!

Well, it looks like Congress agrees that it’s a pain in the butt, as well is very painful and harmful to viewers hearing, because they passed a bill this week to control the volume level of TV advertisements. The bill entitled the Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation Act, or very appropriately the CALM Act is currently waiting to approved by President Obama. But, really, why wouldn’t he approve it? Nobody wants to get their ears blown off every time a commercial comes on.

Once the bill is passed, the Federal Communications Commission would be required to adopt industry standards that coordinate ad decibel levels to those of the regular program within one year and the regulation would go into full effect a year after that. This bill would affect all broadcast providers, including cable and satellite. So here’s to hoping that one day soon our lazy TV Sundays will be full “CALM” commercials.  

Via msnbc