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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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We all know the modern complaint: movie sound sucks now unless you have a high-end sound system. Frantically turning down the volume after turning it up to hear the dialogue only to need to turn it up again can be frustrating. Now, this doesn't solve the underlying problem, but why not have a "Volume A" and "Volume B" you can easily set and toggle between with the simple press of a button?

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[–] halcyoncmdr@piefed.social 2 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

Most modern TVs have a Night audio mode that will compress audio to a smaller spectrum, basically for this exact reason.

[–] whaleross@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

You're not wrong in any way but I would just like to clarify in the most friendly way that the use of spectrum in audio context is frequencies and not amplitude. Compressing the frequency spectrum is not really desired unless for in very particular applications like specialized lossy audio compression, which in turn is even more confusing the terminology because now compression is about reducing the data rate in a controlled degradation. Anyway, the proper terminology would be that the audio is dynamically compressed to a smaller range.

[–] rants_unnecessarily@piefed.social 2 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

That "most" is doing a lot of heavy lifting there.

[–] halcyoncmdr@piefed.social 1 points 13 hours ago

Roku devices (including the Roku TV models from various manufacturers) have a Night audio mode.

Samsung TVs have an Adaptive Sound mode that does similar. And Samsung soundbars have a Night mode in the SmartThings app.

Sony calls it Night Mode or Night Sound depending on the product.

Google TV also calls it Night Mode.

Hisense calls it Night Mode or Late Night.

Vizio calls it Night Mode

LG calls it Night Time.

Apple TV calls it Reduce Loud Sounds.

I'd say that covers "most".