[Echo Talon]

yea i notice that! about the commercials, I notice most of the loud ones are local commercials on my cable TV. You know like a commercial for the local car dealership or whatever. they always seem louder than like a national ad say for like McDonald's or something.

[JennysCool]

They do that just to irritate the two of you. :-)

[DJ MacWoW]

It was explained that the reason is, everyone goes to the bathroom during commercials, so they're louder so they can be heard. Lousy reason for blowing peoples ears off.

There was a TV advertised 2 or 3 years ago that adjusted the volume automatically to keep it all the same. Nice trick if it works but I haven't heard about it since.