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- Newsgroups: sci.electronics
- Path: sparky!uunet!mole-end!mat
- From: mat@mole-end.matawan.nj.us
- Subject: Re: Filtering TV Commercials
- Message-ID: <1992Sep11.001410.12975@mole-end.matawan.nj.us>
- Organization: :
- References: <14866@mindlink.bc.ca>
- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 00:14:10 GMT
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- In article <14866@mindlink.bc.ca>, Desiree_Bradley@mindlink.bc.ca (Desiree Bradley) writes:
- >> I\ Gordon Hlavenka says:
-
- >> This is not _always_ the case. In fact, I recently watched a commercial
- >> which appeared to have been deleberately processed in such a way as to
- >> make the words _difficult_ to understand. ... The product? Beltone
- >> hearing aids :-) (Their 800 number was on the screen ...)
-
- > They probably turned down the volume to make people have doubts about their
- > hearing.
-
- Around here, Miracle Ear runs commercials in which the voice has been
- subjected to a strange companding. I believe that they have put the
- voice through their hearing aids' signal processing so to make it
- intelligible to people who need the product.
- --
- (This man's opinions are his own.)
- From mole-end Mark Terribile
-
- mat@mole-end.matawan.nj.us, Somewhere in Matawan, NJ
-