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- From: larry@peak.psl.nmsu.edu (Evil Engineer doin' it the Cowboy Way)
- Newsgroups: alt.peeves
- Subject: voluminous audio on commercials
- Message-ID: <LARRY.92Jul21074323@peak.psl.nmsu.edu>
- Date: 21 Jul 92 14:43:23 GMT
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- Organization: New Mexico State University, MetaPhysical Science Laboratory
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- I'll had it up to here (about my neck) with TV commercials that blare out
- at twice the volumn of the program itself. It's made even worse by all the
- audio compression applied to commercials, which are designed to keep the
- modulation VU meters at 100%.
-
- MiniPeeve: Marketeers who misuse the noble work we Engineers do
- to produce evil audio compression for their goddam
- advertisements.
-
- A call to the local cable TV to complain about their insertion spots yielded
- an acknowledgement of the problem, with some whining excuse about the
- difficulties of "matching the levels on the feeds". To which I asked,
- "Well, gee, isn't this the BUSINESS you folks are trying to be in?" I also
- reminded the fellow that the FCC might have something to say about such
- practices, and that the feed level errors always seemed to result in the
- commercial levels being way too high..
-
- Just another reason for not watching commercial television.
-
- RelatedPeeve: Cher. Damn her, anyway. Here, after Mask and several other
- outstanding intelligent, high quality acting jobs, I had
- begun to respect her genius. Now she is hawking some hair
- products in one of those Amazing Discovery (the discovery
- which is so amazing being that you will watch a commercial
- for 30 minutes straight..) type programs. Pure airhead mode.
-
- OK, Cher! Back into your diaper! Get nasty.. That's better. (I guess I can
- still appreciate Cher's "genius" on some level.)
-
- ["I got YOOOU, Babe!"]
-
- EqualPeeve: Dionne Warwick, on the Psychic Amazing Discoveries program.
- Another highly talented female shot to hell.
-
- OKWithMeHowever: Jessica Hahn, who sang in the church choir and apparently
- played soprano skin flute (supplied by Jimmy Baker) as
- well, has frizzed her hair up and now "stars" in her own
- Amazing Discovery type program about Female Fantasies.
-
- "Ooohh. I just want a darling romantic man who will love me
- and will be very romantic and then we will have dinner and then
- it turns out he's a millionaire and he'll let me be myself and
- just love me a lot.."
-
- AndIWonder: How Tammy Faye is doing nowadays.
-
- AndIAlsoWonder: How Jimmy is doing nowadays. Does he get TV and see
- Jessica and sigh?
-
- (Yes, I know. I'm not a very nice person. [I'm Evil Engineer, not Nice
- Engineer..])
-
- L.
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- Disclaimer: Opinions expressed here are CORRECT, mine, and not PSLs or NMSUs..
- Oh sure, we could do it the _easy_ way. But it just wouldn't be the COWBOY WAY.
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