To wish all programmes were the same volume

[Zingy123]

I'm watching Dancing on Ice in the bedroom as Dh & children are watching something else. Next door have a newborn so am trying to be considerate.

I am having to keep adjusting the volume as it keeps changing. Family fortunes music was blaring now can hardly hear Philip talking.

Yes yes yes, I was only discussing this yesterday. It drives me mad. You can have the volume up high for a particular programme and then when the adverts come on the change in volume is like a bloody riot in the room.

And also a programme and the adverts in between should maintain a consistent volume!!

Ah, this bugs me too! I have my finger permanently on the volume button! It's mainly adverts and cheering audiences that have to turn the sound down for. I prefer subtitles now I'm getting old

YANBU - it's so bloody annoying. And the sodding adverts are twice as loud as the actual programmes. Grrrrrrrrr!

Yes this drives me crazy too! Our living room is right next to 8 month old DS's bedroom so our volume goes up and down like a yoyo all evening so we don't wake him!

We have one of those cinema surround-sound thingies with speakers that lurk in dark corners - you have to sit poised anxiously on the edge of the sofa with the remote pointed at the box during shit-kicker films where there are lots of explosions.

Our neighbours live elsewhere most of the time, so I am not too worried about disturbing them - but I saw a passer-by out of the window look back in horror once while we were watching Apocalypse Now. I am sure he ducked.

H and I were just discussing this!

I think it is HD that is the problem. I have noticed that non HD programs you need to turn them up, but then you go to the ads or the next program and it is HD and suddenly you are blowing the windows out!

It annoys the hell out of me, especially as we have a fairly open plan house so the TV sounds as loud on the landing as it does in the lounge and can wake the kids up if we are not careful.

YES!

Yes I use headphones or subtitles.

YANBU

YANBU

I was ogling watching the Musketeers earlier and had to turn it down it was so loud, News straight after, so quiet I could barely hear it.

The bloody adverts are deafening.

Interesting comment about HD. I'll keep an ear out for that.

Totally agree.
Can't just be HD as we don't have it

Damn. Thats blown my theory!

It is the ads that are loudest though, perhaps it is the opposite of subliminal advertising!

I'm sure I read that this problem was to be addressed a few years ago. Due to complaints etc. Clearly nothing was.

Yanbu. This drives me mad. I'm sat poised to turn the volume down for adverts or fast forward through them.