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Re:California passes law to reduce volume of commercials on ... by hnuser123456 on Tuesday October 07, 2025 @05:19PM (#45509023)
Were there any streaming services that played ads at a louder level than the content...?
Re:California passes law to reduce volume of commercials on ... by makr17 on Tuesday October 07, 2025 @05:52PM (#45509384)
All of them? It's gotten so bad that I remapped the Netflix button on the Shield remote to mute the receiver. The remote has volume up/down buttons, but no mute, and ads are _so_ loud now.
Re:California passes law to reduce volume of commercials on ... by nickthegreek on Tuesday October 07, 2025 @06:52PM (#45509955)
Hitting vol up and down at the same time on the shield remote will mute. i thought shield also had a way reduce dynamic range in the audio stream to make this a non issue for those that don’t their audio channels being touched.
Re:California passes law to reduce volume of commercials on ... by justarobert on Tuesday October 07, 2025 @05:24PM (#45509071)
At least on the roku apps most of them do for me. I might be willing to believe that it's just them unintentionally misconfiguring it or something; I'm sure roku isn't the primary focus for any of them, but either way, they need to fix it.
Re:California passes law to reduce volume of commercials on ... by belval on Tuesday October 07, 2025 @05:28PM (#45509119)
It's for sure an intentional issue considering how long its been there without getting fixed.

So obnoxious as well, it isn't somewhat louder, it's aggressively louder.

Re:California passes law to reduce volume of commercials on ... by dragonwriter on Tuesday October 07, 2025 @05:58PM (#45509441)
Are there any that don’t?
Re:California passes law to reduce volume of commercials on ... by BlewisJS on Tuesday October 07, 2025 @05:23PM (#45509064)
Yes...?
Re:California passes law to reduce volume of commercials on ... by esseph on Tuesday October 07, 2025 @05:35PM (#45509201)
Hulu
Re:California passes law to reduce volume of commercials on ... by slater on Tuesday October 07, 2025 @05:22PM (#45509046)
Either at louder levels, or playing the old game of volume vs. compression