Adverts for dogs?

I see that Bakers have produced an advert for their dog food which uses
sounds above 18kHz to attract dogs to look at the TV. Presumably they hope
that owners will think the dogs are trying to tell them how much they like
the food. Apparently the first airing of the advert will be during Emmerdale
tonight.

Does the transmitted audio bandwidth extend this high? Even if it does, I
wonder how many TV speakers will produce enough output for the dogs to hear
it?

Allan

On 13/02/2012 09:40, Allan wrote:
I see that Bakers have produced an advert for their dog food which uses
sounds above 18kHz to attract dogs to look at the TV. Presumably they hope
that owners will think the dogs are trying to tell them how much they like
the food. Apparently the first airing of the advert will be during Emmerdale
tonight.

Does the transmitted audio bandwidth extend this high? Even if it does, I
wonder how many TV speakers will produce enough output for the dogs to hear
it?

Yes, I read that too and had the same thought. But maybe the idea was
just to get this into the news for a nice bit of free advertising, and
they don't really care if the HF sound will be heard or not.

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Jeff

On Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:34:47 +0000
Jeff Layman wrote:

On 13/02/2012 09:40, Allan wrote:
I see that Bakers have produced an advert for their dog food which
uses sounds above 18kHz to attract dogs to look at the TV.
Presumably they hope that owners will think the dogs are trying to
tell them how much they like the food. Apparently the first airing
of the advert will be during Emmerdale tonight.

Does the transmitted audio bandwidth extend this high? Even if it
does, I wonder how many TV speakers will produce enough output for
the dogs to hear it?

Yes, I read that too and had the same thought. But maybe the idea
was just to get this into the news for a nice bit of free
advertising, and they don't really care if the HF sound will be heard
or not.


18kHz? I know I won't hear it!

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On Mon, 13 Feb 2012 09:40:30 -0000, "Allan"
wrote:

I see that Bakers have produced an advert for their dog food which uses
sounds above 18kHz to attract dogs to look at the TV. Presumably they hope
that owners will think the dogs are trying to tell them how much they like
the food. Apparently the first airing of the advert will be during Emmerdale
tonight.


Do dogs watch Emmerdale?

Steve

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On Mon, 13 Feb 2012 11:03:26 +0000
Stephen Wolstenholme wrote:

On Mon, 13 Feb 2012 09:40:30 -0000, "Allan"
wrote:

I see that Bakers have produced an advert for their dog food which
uses sounds above 18kHz to attract dogs to look at the TV.
Presumably they hope that owners will think the dogs are trying to
tell them how much they like the food. Apparently the first airing
of the advert will be during Emmerdale tonight.


Do dogs watch Emmerdale?

Steve


Maybe city dogs look at the Emmerdale countryside and wish they were
there. But if they met the inhabitants, they would flee at high speed!
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"Allan" wrote in message
...
I see that Bakers have produced an advert for their dog food which uses
sounds above 18kHz to attract dogs to look at the TV. Presumably they hope
that owners will think the dogs are trying to tell them how much they like
the food. Apparently the first airing of the advert will be during
Emmerdale tonight.

Does the transmitted audio bandwidth extend this high? Even if it does, I
wonder how many TV speakers will produce enough output for the dogs to
hear it?

Allan

I should be amazed if this was produced by any loudspeaker. The FM pilot
tone is 19kHz because it is inaudible.

On Mon, 13 Feb 2012 09:40:30 -0000
"Allan" wrote:

I see that Bakers have produced an advert for their dog food which
uses sounds above 18kHz to attract dogs to look at the TV. Presumably
they hope that owners will think the dogs are trying to tell them how
much they like the food. Apparently the first airing of the advert
will be during Emmerdale tonight.

Does the transmitted audio bandwidth extend this high? Even if it
does, I wonder how many TV speakers will produce enough output for
the dogs to hear it?

Allan


What frequency do those things that are supposed to keep mice away run
at?
--
Davey.

A (long) while back there was a craze for dog-whistles which were
supposed to be inaudible to humans but audible to dogs.
Contemporaneously, there was a wonderful Fred Basset cartoon
consisting of Fred (a basset hound, for those of you who don't
remember) in the foreground sniffing leisurely at this and that in the
countryside, and his owner in the far distance blowing furiously on a
whistle. The thought bubbles coming out of Fred's head read:

"Ah! That's that clever new whistle of his which supposedly dogs can
hear but humans can't!"

"So if I ignore it, he won't know whether it's working or not, will
he?"

"And after a while, he'll assume it isn't and maybe we'll all get some
peace!"

"It's just a question of working these things out!"

On Mon, 13 Feb 2012 09:40:30 -0000, "Allan"
wrote:

I see that Bakers have produced an advert for their dog food which uses
sounds above 18kHz to attract dogs to look at the TV.
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On Mon, 13 Feb 2012 14:52:41 +0000
Java Jive wrote:

A (long) while back there was a craze for dog-whistles which were
supposed to be inaudible to humans but audible to dogs.
Contemporaneously, there was a wonderful Fred Basset cartoon
consisting of Fred (a basset hound, for those of you who don't
remember) in the foreground sniffing leisurely at this and that in the
countryside, and his owner in the far distance blowing furiously on a
whistle. The thought bubbles coming out of Fred's head read:

"Ah! That's that clever new whistle of his which supposedly dogs can
hear but humans can't!"

"So if I ignore it, he won't know whether it's working or not, will
he?"

"And after a while, he'll assume it isn't and maybe we'll all get some
peace!"

"It's just a question of working these things out!"

On Mon, 13 Feb 2012 09:40:30 -0000, "Allan"
wrote:

I see that Bakers have produced an advert for their dog food which
uses sounds above 18kHz to attract dogs to look at the TV.

Fred was a very good observer of human frailties.
--
Davey.

I don't think there is much above 15khz from what I recall. Also of course,
being digital at those frequencies, who knows what the compression might do
to it?

My speakers have a healthy output past 40 Khz, but I don't have any bats in
my house to hear it.

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"Allan" wrote in message
...
I see that Bakers have produced an advert for their dog food which uses
sounds above 18kHz to attract dogs to look at the TV. Presumably they hope
that owners will think the dogs are trying to tell them how much they like
the food. Apparently the first airing of the advert will be during
Emmerdale tonight.

Does the transmitted audio bandwidth extend this high? Even if it does, I
wonder how many TV speakers will produce enough output for the dogs to
hear it?

Allan