It would certainly have my vote - another which I find extremely annoying is the 'advert' current running on BBC where lots of different sports are shown, complete with their accompanying noises, split into tiny fragments of video, which does my eyes no good, and at high volume too. I always turn off the sound and look away when this one appears.

I'm with you on this.

My wife smiles as I sit there, remote in hand, ready to douse the volume when the ad breaks come. The volume increase infuriates me - it's as if the TV companies are saying 'we're going to treat you like children, and whack up the volume, in case you miss the fact that the ads have started'.

Years ago when I had an Analogue Digibox it had Automatic Volume control . Useful for overloud ads but a bit annoying when it ramped up the volume on quiet bits with the accompanying increase in 'noise', and you couldn't turn it off.

I've got a feeling that my current Virgin box has an AVC option but I don't have it switched on. The really annoying thing with Virgin is the VERY LOUD trailers when you are navigating through the menus to access the Catch Up TV etc.

I am in total agreement and thank heavens there is a mute button on the remote control!

FE

Your post made me smile as I have exactly the same in our house, wife chuckling as I hover, poised with the remote. I have also noticed that the local news (Look North) programme seems to be broadcast at a higher volume to the BBC news.