Just Simply Holly

First off, I’m extremely ornery today, so that doesn’t help matters any. But I am SOOOOOOOOOOO sick of something that I’ve only dealt with in the few years that I’ve had satellite TV! Right now hubby and I are kind of watching a movie on TV, but it’s on a regular channel, so there are commercials. We set the volume so that we can hear it fine for the movie, but when the commercials come on it is so ungodly loud it scares the crap out of us!

Now I remember ALL the years that we had cable TV, we never had this problem, nor was it a problem when we used rabbit ear antennas. We’ve only had this problem since having Satellite TV, PERIOD! When I first noticed this problem, shortly after we first started getting the service, I emailed DirecTV. They answered me back by saying they had no control over the problem, that the problem was with the individual channels. So I think started emailing individual channels, explaining my problem to them and they answered back by telling me it wasn’t a problem that they had any control over.

Now before you ask, no we did not have a different TV from before we started noticing this, it was the same TV that we’ve had for a few years now, so it doesn’t have anything to do with our TV, and it’s not TV specific, it happens on all of them. The worst part of it would be if we happen to fall asleep with the TV volume on, we would get abruptly awoken in the middle of the night by very loud commercials.

I know that I’m not the only person that has experienced this, I’ve read numerous complaints from other people all over the web about this. So my question is, if so many people are having this problem, why can’t/won’t something be done about it? We’re the consumers, we pay for these services, why can’t the people that provide them make us feel as if our wishes matter to them?