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		Karunamon on March 18, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: YouTube puts the final nail in the loudness wars' ... In theory, yes, in practice, that just means the commercials are compressed to the single loudest part of the TV show they accompany. Net effect: Nil. The commercial still sounds louder than everything else.

timc3 on March 18, 2015 [–]

Not for much longer, one of the highlights of the past couple of years of NAB has been new algorithms and hardware to combat exactly this issue.

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