[LEAPSECS] an Emmy for ITU-R

[Richard B. Langley]

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/tech-news/canadians-scoop-tech-emmy-for-dialling-down-loud-tv-ads/article2299466/?utm_medium=Newsletter&utm_source=Tech%20Alert%20Weekly&utm_type=text&utm_content=Canadians%20scoop%20tech%20Emmy%20for%20dialling%20down%20loud%20TV%20ads&utm_campaign=92183478

-- Richard

P.S. This is off topic. Sorry.

On 16-Jan-12, at 1:44 AM, Steve Allen wrote:


> The ITU-R is going to win an Emmy

> http://voicendata.ciol.com/content/news1/112011308.asp

> so the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences

> is doing the backtracking to the source.

>

> The news that most folks in the US have heard is about the CALM act

> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_Advertisement_Loudness_Mitigation_Act

> What that does is to incorporate by reference ATSC A/85:2011

> http://www.atsc.org/cms/standards/a_85-2011a.pdf

> What that does is to reiterate ITU-R BS.1770

> http://www.itu.int/rec/R-REC-BS.1770/en

>

> If I'm not mistaken congress wanted to regulate commercial volume

> around 20 years ago, but at that point the broadcasters pointed to

> particular metrics for volume by which there was no difference.

> I have no idea when ITU-R started work on BS.1770, but it was getting

> an international agreement on that which enabled the rest of this  

> story.

>

>

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