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Article #6435Re: Filtering TV Commercials
From: mat
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 00:14
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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Newsgroups: sci.electronics Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!mole-end!mat From: mat@mole-end.matawan.nj.us Subject: Re: Filtering TV Commercials Message-ID: <1992Sep11.001410.12975@mole-end.matawan.nj.us> Organization: : References: <14866@mindlink.bc.ca> Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 00:14:10 GMT Lines: 20