Subject: Re: dynamic compression of comertials From: Laszlo Toth <tothl@xxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 13:55:18 +0200 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>On Tue, 20 Sep 2011, Zlatan Ribic wrote: > compressed comertials in broadcasting are much louder if compared with > "standard" program. Is there any norm limiting this misuse? I don't know what you mean by "norm". As far as I know, in several European countries there are laws against it, but I don't know if they are any effective in practice (for example whether the loudness of commercials is monitored regularly, or only when someone complains officially). Laszlo Toth Hungarian Academy of Sciences * Research Group on Artificial Intelligence * "Failure only begins e-mail: tothl@xxxxxxxx * when you stop trying" http://www.inf.u-szeged.hu/~tothl *