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Originally posted by Sandy G
We have Charter Cable here, & they do the commercials at ear-splitting volume as well. The programs are attentuated to near inaubibilty, so you have to crank it up to hear them & then, Ka-Boom !! If that wasn't bad enuff, they pre-empt lots of the "national commercials" for local dreck, which usually has a nice 60hz hummm on it & 2 or 3 pops & cracks when the do the pre-empting. Sweet. -Sandy G.
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Sandy,
Where I live, 30 miles east of Cleveland, we have Comcast cable. The pictures are great and the sound levels are maintained as they should be, with absolutely even volume between commercials and programs (although I would never notice increases or decreases in commercial volume, or differences between program sound volume and that of commercials, as a rule unless I was looking for them, since I almost always hit the mute button on my remote when the commercials come on).
It sounds to me as if Charter Cable doesn't control volume levels anywhere nearly as closely as Comcast and other large cable companies. You mentioned in a reply to one of my posts some time ago that the cable system in your area started out as a CATV system, with the conversion to a full-service cable system coming some years later. How big a cable company is Charter? I never heard of it before now. Sounds to me like it's a very small system, with subscribers mostly in small towns like yours.
As to cable companies occasionally replacing national commercials with local ones, this is a common practice; Comcast and probably other cable companies do it as well, to promote local businesses. Happens on every cable channel except WGN on Comcast. I just ignore it. It's probably been going on for years and won't stop any time soon, if ever.
Kind regards,