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Originally posted by elinterventor01:
Of course, this only applies to broadcast stations, not cable. The FCC has no authority over those.


The FCC can only do what Congress allows. The agency does have some authority over cable, and the sound act applies there and satellite but it's been ruled that applying decency restrictions to it similar to broadcast would violate the first amendment since you could always ask the cable company to block the channels or you simply can opt to not have cable at all.

For instance, ever wondered why cable boxes black out scrambled channels now entirely? Because it was requested in section 505 of the Communications Decency act of 1996 due to complaints the FCC was getting over signal bleed (sound or images getting through the scramble)
They do, but the circuits were expensive until around a year ago, only the high end sets had them and truthfully they weren't problem free since most commercials just compressed the dynamic range to get around existing laws that limited volume but was aimed at analog TV.

http://www.dolby.com/consumer/...me/dolby-volume.html

http://www.srslabs.com/content.aspx?id=229

Anyhow, it's better to deal with compressed sound at the source where it can be pre-calculated then having to build a circuit that can adjust on the fly.

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