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Re: Filtering TV Commercials

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From: mat
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 00:14
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In article <14866@mindlink.bc.ca>, Desiree_Bradley@mindlink.bc.ca (Desiree Bradley) writes:
>> I\ Gordon Hlavenka says:
 
>> This is not _always_ the case.  In fact, I recently watched a commercial
>> which appeared to have been deleberately processed in such a way as to
>> make the words _difficult_ to understand.  ...  The product?  Beltone
>> hearing aids :-) (Their 800 number was on the screen ...)
 
> They probably turned down the volume to make people have doubts about their
> hearing.

Around here, Miracle Ear runs commercials in which the voice has been
subjected to a strange companding.  I believe that they have put the
voice through their hearing aids' signal processing so to make it
intelligible to people who need the product.
-- 
 (This man's opinions are his own.)
 From mole-end				Mark Terribile

 mat@mole-end.matawan.nj.us, Somewhere in Matawan, NJ
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