Loudness : France chooses EBU R128 to bolster audio laws

« French authorities have chosen the EBU’s loudness recommendation to add weight to national laws governing the loudness of television broadcasts, which protect viewers from unpleasant and unpopular lurches in the volume of programmes and adverts.

Known as ‘EBU R128′, the recommendation has already been adopted by more than 40 broadcast equipment manufacturers, and by a number national broadcasters, including Dutch public and private national broadcasters, which started normalising adverts to EBU R128 early last month.

But France has now become the first country to link the EBU R128 standard to its audiovisual legislation, meaning previously unenforceable laws on loudness are now better defined and can be enforced…. »

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Source : www.ebu.ch [En ligne] Consulté le 11/11/2011

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