this post was submitted on 10 Aug 2025
803 points (98.5% liked)

Comic Strips

19279 readers
1094 users here now

Comic Strips is a community for those who love comic stories.

The rules are simple:

Web of links

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[โ€“] prof 36 points 1 month ago (11 children)

I thought it was quite bad already in the EU but we at least have standards for it. I'm currently in the US and watching TV I have to turn on closed captions for everything because voices are just so damm silent, while Ads and stuff just blast your face off.

[โ€“] yermaw@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

but we at least have standards for it

Holy shit. I didnt know that. We're on the baby-mode kiddy-gloved nanny-state-in-muh-TV mode?

Poor Americans. They must be going deaf.

[โ€“] prof 5 points 1 month ago

The standards are still pretty bad, and most producers of movies and tv shows still don't balance their audio for home TVs, but I do believe Ads have a limited allowed "loudness".

If it was real baby mode we would have a regulated minimum and maximum loudness for everything, so we don't have to change volume constantly.

load more comments (9 replies)