Universal Volume Settings
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Staten Island, NY Posted: 1/26/2016 1:00:00 AM
Have you ever noticed that the volume numbers on TVs mean absolutely nothing?
I find it funny that most TVs today show a number on the screen when you adjust the volume, but the number itself is meaningless.
Let's say your current TV is set at 25, and you buy a new TV and set it at 25... will the volume be the same? Probably not. In fact, even on the same TV, if you measured the sound on two different channels, the volume could be dramatically different. Not only that, even on the same channel, on the same TV the volume in the commercials will be much higher than the show you were watching. That's pretty stupid.
That's why there needs to be some kind of standards. If nothing else, if the TV has numbers, they should move from 0 to 100, where each number is a percentage of the maximum power of the TV. Although it doesn't solve the issue of different sound levels between different models, it at least makes a number like 25 mean something... 25%.
Taken to the next level it would be great to have a standard that works between brands and sizes, so when you see a TV that has a maximum volume of 60, you'll know it's louder than a model that only has a maximum of 45. Of course that also means that guitarist Nigel Tufnel could finally get an amp that really goes to 11.
Joe Crescenzi, Founder
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