Ed, at first renting movies was fun, but then all the workings they did to enhance the video to fit on your TV made it seem fine but only for the video part of the movie. Why is it that the volume seemed always lower, as if the actors were whispering? If you raise the volume, then when music plays your eardrops explode! This seemed to carry over with the new video technology. We see enhanced video movies, graphics, special effects, but the volume has become intolerable. We noticed this while watching a TV show and we couldn’t hear, so we raised up the volume. But the commercials are blasting away as loudly as possible, so we lower the volume. Most times nowadays we’re watching TV with the control in our hands; volume up, volume down!

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I hate when my eardrops explode. —Ed. Note