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  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 7,093
    Obelixx says:

    Got to love these boards!  I never knew there was such a thing as an acoustician. 

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    Oh yes image Some of them even speak English if you ask them to, as opposed to their native tongue, which I believe is logarithms.

    Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon

    “It's still magic even if you know how it's done.” 
  • Papi JoPapi Jo Posts: 4,254
    raisingirl says:

    I asked an acoustician once if it was my imagination that adverts are louder than the TV programmes. He said no, they aren't actually louder, but they use compression techniques that make them sound louder, even though you haven't touched the volume control. It isn't possible to stop them doing it, apparently image

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     The U.S. try to regulate this problem. See https://www.fcc.gov/media/policy/loud-commercials 

  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505

    Obelixx, are you saying that they play music on golf programmes. That's weirdimage

    I've never understood why people believe golf programmes.

    Show a man standing on grass whacking a ball. Show a bit of sky. Show a ball landing on shorter grass. Man follows ball in a toy car. Man hits ball into a hole. People gasp and clap.

    My question is: how do the tv watchers know they're not being shown any old bit of sky and any old ball landing on the ground?

    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505

    Very civilised, Dhr.sorry, couldn't resist a bit of cage rattling. I don't know enough (or anything, actually) to criticize the sport but some sports don't really work on TV .

    I suspect the sky scenes are a bit like the 'noddies' that are done separately from the actual interview and are added in afterwards.

    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090

    B3 - not all the way thru but definitely during the bits between shots and pundits and course discussions but, frankly, who cares?  Golf is such a waste of time.   4 hours to play a round plus the preamble, the 19th hole, the journey there and back, the endless spost mortems (as bad as bridge players!)  and the practice sessions in between games. 

    What is there to like?   The only upside I can see is that golf provides space for wildlife and, over here anyway, the food is usually good when I am finally persuaded to go for a meal in the club restaurant.

    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505

    I meant when the camera pans up to the sky. I've no experience of Sky TV eitherimage

    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889

    In my experience, the only thing duller than the actual game of golf is the overwhelming majority of those who play it.

    Devon.
  • Papi JoPapi Jo Posts: 4,254

    Hostafan1 "In my experience, the only thing duller than the actual game of golf is the overwhelming majority of those who play it."

    Do you include that person?image

    image

  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889

    For all that I despise the man, one can hardly call him " dull ".

    Devon.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889

    punkdoc, please do what I did a very long time ago and dump him in the handy "ignore" cupboard.

    It works a treat image

    Devon.
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