TV license

On Mon, 24 Aug 2009 16:01:42 +0100, Peter Duncanson
wrote:

Another bugbear is the way the volume leaps when the adverts start.

I keep on reading this - but don't notice it most of the time. Of course
it could depend on the channel you're watching.

I've seen this explained as the programme and adverts having the same
maximum volume (of course) but the programmes having a wider dynamic
range than the ads. The average volume of the ads is higher, closer to
the maximum, than that of programmes. Of course, if a programme is
relatively quiet just before the ads the contrast will be noticeable.

Advertisers want "punch". So, they use compression to bring all
levels close to that limit. Same technique as is used on many rock
music recordings. It's extensively discussed on music/recording
forums. Experts deprecate it, but the market seems to want it.

(Before we go off on a red-herring chase, note that "compression" can
mean doing two quite different things to audio. Reducing file size by
making e.g. an MP3 is not what we're talking about.)

On Mon, 24 Aug 2009 17:54:41 +0100, Peter Duncanson
wrote:

A commercial with no sound at all might attract attention. Suddenly the
TV goes unexpectedly quiet so people look at it and see the ad.

(This would not work for the deaf or the blind.)

Not much on TV does :-) Particularly if deaf AND blind.

On Sun, 30 Aug 2009 12:34:59 +0100, Laurence Payne
wrote:

Advertisers want "punch". So, they use compression to bring all

I must be due for an eye-test. I initially read that as "compassion"!


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Laurence Payne wrote:
Advertisers want "punch". So, they use compression to bring all
levels close to that limit.

So does pretty well everything on TV - and has done for many a year.

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"Mark Carver" wrote in message
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Peter Duncanson wrote:

There could be a storyline about a character selecting a TV and having
it installed: excellent named TV but installation including aerial
erection performed by an unknown bodger; proper named installer and
aerial erector comes to the rescue; Etc.

Then there are cars, washing machines, kettles - from various suppliers,
and so on. the possibilities are endless.

I'm surprised no one has mentioned the early 1960s ATV programme, Jim's
Inn.

The ITA put a stop to it, but it was indeed a TV series with product
placement built in.

http://www.televisionheaven.co.uk/jimsinn.htm

My age was in single digits, but I do remember a magasine programme
in the Winter Hill area so it might have been Jims Inn, but I don't remember
it being set in a Pub, it was more like this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0pXy...eature=related
1:07 - 2:20
I even remember a couple of products advertised,
Sets of building bricks, like Lego but made of rubber.
A shed made by Kencast, called the Ken-Den.

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Graham. wrote:


I even remember a couple of products advertised,
Sets of building bricks, like Lego but made of rubber.


Minibrix - they predate Lego by a generation

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Graham. wrote:
"Mark Carver" wrote in message

I'm surprised no one has mentioned the early 1960s ATV programme, Jim's
Inn.

The ITA put a stop to it, but it was indeed a TV series with product
placement built in.

http://www.televisionheaven.co.uk/jimsinn.htm

My age was in single digits,

Don't worry ! I wasn't even a sperm in 1960 :-)

"charles" wrote in message
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In article ,
Graham. wrote:


I even remember a couple of products advertised,
Sets of building bricks, like Lego but made of rubber.


Minibrix - they predate Lego by a generation

Thank's Charles!

About the same time I did get my hands on what was left of my Uncles
Bayko set, but my interest a few years later was with Airfix Betta Bilda.
I could not understand the obsession with the over-priced and in some
ways inferior Lego.

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