[mythtv-users] What controls the volume level in a recording?

[Don Brett]

Patrick Doyle wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 12:24 PM, Don Brett <dlbrett at zoominternet.net> wrote:
>   
>> Justin Johnson wrote:
>>     
>>> On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 9:01 AM, Brian J. Murrell <brian at interlinx.bc.ca>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> On Mon, 2010-07-05 at 08:56 -0400, Don Brett wrote:
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> I noticed that some recordings play back louder than others as if they
>>>>> were recorded louder.  My old mythtv box and the new one seem different
>>>>> and downloaded content is definitely different.  What controls the
>>>>> recorded volume level?
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>> The advertisers.  :-D
>>>>
>>>> b.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>         
>> You're probably right.
>>     
> Many years ago (oh dear, I think I might even be able to say "many
> decades ago") I was friends with a fellow who worked at an Armed
> Forces TV station in Japan.  He claimed (although, knowing him, he
> could have made this up) that he used to turn down the modulation
> volume to about 30% on the Saturday morning cartoons from 6am until
> 8am, anticipating that all the kids watching the cartoons would turn
> up the volume on their television sets just to hear the Road Runner go
> beep beep!  (I warned you, this was many decades ago).  Then, at 8am,
> he'd turn it back to 100% so that all the TV's on the base would
> suddenly start blaring out "I tawt I taw a puddy cat!" at full volume.
>
> Of course, he may have been pulling my leg :-)
>
> --wpd
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That's a great story...and I believe every word!  But isn't the correct 
pronunciation "puddy tat"?