Anyone who invented a switching device that could lower the volume of loud commercials to normal levels would make a mint.
It’s funny you mention that...I seem to remember a sci-fi book, “Contact” maybe, where one of the characters became a billionaire after inventing a device that sensed the decibel increase of TV commercials and would automatically mute the television...
Many surround sound receivers have attenuators that keep the volume level. There may be external attenuators as well to reduce that problem. I thought some TVs did this as well.
Not much of a TV watcher so I am no expert.
I have a Toshiba televison that is suppose to do that but I cannot detect a bit of difference in volume. Commercials are just as loud as they ever were.
There is a “loudness control” device. I bought one for $49. Got it out of the box and read the instructions, looked at all the “stuff” coming out of the back of the tv and put it back in the box where it remains. It exists, I jus don’t know how to give it life! :-)
Mute button
“Anyone who invented a switching device that could lower the volume of loud commercials to normal levels would make a mint.”
Already been done.
It’s called an ‘Audio Compressor’ and if adjusted right, will even out the audio so that commercials won’t ‘blare’ at you.