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(DIR) Post #AT2ykmWVflexu9ek52 by lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org
2023-02-25T19:03:31Z
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So yeah. Modern TV and film: You can't see anything because the lighting is so dark, you can't hear the dialogue because it's muffled and buried beneath a constant synthesized underscore, and ... yeah. I was reading an article lately that viewers of all ages are having trouble understanding dialogue now and frequently turning on closed captions -- people with perfectly good hearing.
(DIR) Post #AT2zz6W6Eb0FvBrEPI by kkeller@curling.social
2023-02-25T19:16:57Z
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@lauren I've been using closed captions for years, but it's because I don't like turning the volume up too high. Maybe these young whippersnappers are smarter than we thought?!?
(DIR) Post #AT30AhQHMIZ3ZLfEem by mrcompletely@heads.social
2023-02-25T19:19:25Z
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@lauren a lot of young people watch everything with closed captions partly because they're also video or audio chatting with friends or otherwise multi tasking
(DIR) Post #AT30FJ5bG1xXY2Bl8C by lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org
2023-02-25T19:20:17Z
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@mrcompletely That too. But dialogue has become buried by design now and everyone is noticing it.
(DIR) Post #AT30LWDjLiDu0jxBku by DarcMoughty@infosec.exchange
2023-02-25T19:20:59Z
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@lauren I still have a Plasma TV, and I strapped and amp and some good speakers to it a while ago. It makes all the difference. The center channel speaker, especially.
(DIR) Post #AT30Nbeo6fX1S4c8My by cowman@nfld.me
2023-02-25T19:20:59Z
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@lauren boosting centre channel levels works too, though shouldn't /need/ a good TV and multichannel receiver just to watch a movie or show and be able to understand what is going on.
(DIR) Post #AT30PKRN5ZMUdO9Pma by mrcompletely@heads.social
2023-02-25T19:21:51Z
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@lauren oh sure that's very real
(DIR) Post #AT30QsdlQ6JezcgfQW by lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org
2023-02-25T19:21:48Z
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@DarcMoughty A plasma! How quaint.
(DIR) Post #AT31BKUoBaOkhqeBJQ by Thx4SharingJerk@mastodon.online
2023-02-25T19:30:41Z
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@lauren The sound mixing on most new movies/TV is unlistenable—it’s either use captions or rewind every few minutes to figure out what the guy just said
(DIR) Post #AT32GvFp2xd670rtJI by I_Like_Books@strangeobject.space
2023-02-25T19:42:50Z
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@lauren I am ASD (always have been but only diagnosed as adult), I always had issues hearing dialog. It was only when captioning became common on shows that I was really able to follow along. Now years later with hearing loss, it helps even more (I do not watch new stuff though, only rewatch old, the new stuff has crap storylines and is too violent and has way too much sex)
(DIR) Post #AT32tmRTk9L64lqiQq by DarcMoughty@infosec.exchange
2023-02-25T19:49:56Z
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@lauren Right?! It's 12 years old and still looks better than most TVs sold today, especially for older films. Not so good with all the lights on, but it's a home theater beast.I'm glad OLEDs are going mainstream, I finally have a good option to replace it when it eventually dies.
(DIR) Post #AT333Nc0uqIxxkM1xY by timo21@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-02-25T19:51:40Z
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@lauren My household calls the modern cinematographic technique "darkovision". It's amazing how many scenes are filmed in darkovision.
(DIR) Post #AT34oBcHQusCK6MUxE by joeo10@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-02-25T20:11:20Z
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@lauren It's one of the many reasons why I dislike modern films and shows these days and most of the time, they don't give you an option to turn on subtitles in English since it's usually SDH only due to rights and stuff. Sad state of affairs.
(DIR) Post #AT36VtBdPppbrOIlLU by PizzaDemon@mastodon.online
2023-02-25T20:30:26Z
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@lauren I want a special setting for The Last of Us that only captions Joel.
(DIR) Post #AT3A1gghimvkDzgjxY by GreenSkyOverMe@ohai.social
2023-02-25T21:09:47Z
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@lauren The advantage of watching everything dubbed … only the darkness problem remains
(DIR) Post #AT3Ce7LfFJ71p8Ids0 by deirdrebeth@mas.to
2023-02-25T21:39:10Z
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@lauren I read a better one earlier, but this is the one I could find. What sucks is it really does seem to boil down to penny pinching.https://www.slashfilm.com/673162/heres-why-movie-dialogue-has-gotten-more-difficult-to-understand-and-three-ways-to-fix-it/
(DIR) Post #AT3CorM33D93PBbLvs by lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org
2023-02-25T21:41:08Z
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@deirdrebeth Yeah, I've seen this one. Still a good article.
(DIR) Post #AT3Cr88nbvKK2vUGMC by TomWild@masto.ai
2023-02-25T21:41:28Z
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@lauren I suspect movies are more watchable and the dialog clearer in a darkened theater with a proper sound system. In my living room, meh.
(DIR) Post #AT3HV1L0itesLZTXxA by TonyJWells@mastodon.social
2023-02-25T22:33:31Z
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@lauren I used to call it "BBC Drama Sound" as some shows were notorious for mumbling. I think a big part of it is the volume(quantity) of content released onto different platforms, so only a minimum is done on a transfer. I do miss the 'golden years' of quality DVDs where effort went into optimising sound and vision from cinema onto DVD.
(DIR) Post #AT3KOmupjPTdk4x1bU by lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org
2023-02-25T23:06:02Z
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@TomWild You mean with the people texting on both sides of you and holding their phones up to record the movie?
(DIR) Post #AT3opfmHNLGM31gZdY by tumbleweed@mastodon.social
2023-02-26T04:47:04Z
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@lauren And the weirdest thing about this to me is that the people making these things know the problem and don't care.
(DIR) Post #AT4Yl6pDywBwNTpDlI by ender3@infosec.exchange
2023-02-26T13:21:28Z
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@lauren My wife and I do this. It started with some British shows that happened to have particularly strong accents, and we learned we didn’t mind it. We turn it on for just about anything that has “gritty” in the description now.
(DIR) Post #AT4vvgG5OWjO76OojI by triadne@toot.wales
2023-02-26T17:40:21Z
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@lauren I'm often surprised when I put on an old movie and watching quite happily and eventually realise there are no subtitles and I've understood everything so far.
(DIR) Post #AT52EnFqCtrn2RmWS8 by TomWild@masto.ai
2023-02-26T18:51:48Z
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@lauren lol. I guess it’s been a while since I’ve been to a theater.
(DIR) Post #AT5AGh37346C0PFFRY by lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org
2023-02-26T20:22:00Z
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@TomWild Me too.