Best Buy IdeaX

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These are product development or enhancement requests or suggestions.

1) I want to be able to dim my television screen as a visual option comparable to pressing 'mute' for temporarily removing the sound on a television.
 
The reason is that I experience sound and visual input as a barrage of signals from which I need to take momentary (or longer) breaks.  I often mute our television, especially during commercials and other particularly loud or fast tempo, overly-excited sound occurrences and the video is sometimes 'flashing' with activity and variations in contrast that are distracting or annoying (casino commercials, police lights, etc.) but if I were to turn it off, I would miss the opportunity to pick up where I'd like in the program.  Dimming would be a nice alternative to pausing, recording or otherwise just not watching.

2) In the mid-1990's I owned a television that was advertised as being able to modulate the sound so that commercials or programs that had volume or settings like treble set higher and seemed louder would be controlled at the television set automatically.  I recall having set volume thresholds and it seemed that the function made it less likely that any occurrences of sound higher than those thresholds would jar the listener.  Could you please offer the same function?  I have excellent hearing to the extent that sometimes watching and listening to the programs and commercials is physically painful (and I do not always have the remote control).

[#2]

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