I too was going to say something about volume!! It's bad enough having commercials try to wake you up, but when the station's own programming volume changes between their promo spots, news, commercials, and station ID it's enough to make you want to scream.

What is it with varying volume levels between stations too? Isn't there some sort of base line that's standard and set by the FCC? Cable TV is the WORST for this sort of thing. It would be a simple thing for a cable company (and I suppose for satellite too) to regulate this at their source so that the output is pretty much all level. Isn't that supposed to be one of the benefits of digital? Being able to manipulate signals in some manner with no loss or degradation of same?

Anthony