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To: Lane3 who wrote (5618)	4/8/2011 10:20:43 AM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7936

"...What is the equilibrium? Ban loud commercials and people will turn up the volume. First, they won't need to tune down the volume for protection against the commercials, and second the broadcasters might lower the volume on the shows so that the commercials are still louder by contrast. With a threshold effect (the program has to be at least so loud, or you can't hear it), the average heard volume of commercials could end up louder than before. Imagine the supplier making the program really, really faint, to induce you to make the package louder..." marginalrevolution.com