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Originally Posted by Stu from NYC
This is why we DVR everything we watch so we can go right past all the commercials
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My wife is NOT bothered in the least by TV commercials. She must be more "mentally tough" than I am, she just tunes them out somehow. Women have an inherent ability to multitask. I would think that ability would make TV commercials HARDER to tune out, but I guess they can do both. I am better at tuning her out than the TV ads. What REALLY bothers me about the TV ads is that the stations jack up the volume during those ads. A few years ago Congress passed a law to prevent that increase in volume during commercials. Somehow (?) the TV stations and advertisers got around that law and it was never implemented. Too bad, so sad.
I always wondered if some bright electronic engineer would design a product that would SENSE the volume increase of the ads and then mute them or if recorded, fast-forward out of them. Maybe someone did, but the Television Industry would just buy them out to stop them. Also, I imagine that the Television Industry could create counter-measures to prevent muting and fast-forwarding if too many people did it.