[HN Gopher] Can't Hear What Actors Are Saying on TV? It's Not You
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Can't Hear What Actors Are Saying on TV? It's Not You
Author : lxm
Score : 5 points
Date : 2022-11-28 00:52 UTC (4 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.wsj.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.wsj.com)
| kwertyoowiyop wrote:
| Can't hear what the actors are saying, and can't see them either
| because interior scenes are all now lit like a haunted house at
| midnight.
| selfhoster11 wrote:
| Riddle me this, why does stereo mixing done for foreign language
| versions sound much better? I suspect some combination of you
| know, actually _bothering to_ mix down to 2.0 rather than 5.1 and
| hoping for a miracle, or audio mixing overall simply being done
| in a way that emphasises dialogue over the music score or
| background sounds.
| xwowsersx wrote:
| There was another article, also from WSJ, discussing some of this
| phenomenon: https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-do-all-
| these-20-somethings-...
|
| I was relieved when I read that original article because I really
| did think it was just me. It really annoys me because when CC is
| on, my eyes tend to focus on them even if I don't need it for a
| particular sentence or scene. I feel that takes away from
| enjoying the film since I'm so laser focused on the CC. I've
| tried to ease my focus up a bit, but I just can't seem to do it;
| if CC is on, that's where my eyes go.
|
| I do wonder if a new UI/UX for CC could resolve some of that
| issue. Maybe something like using AI/ML to dynamically place the
| CC closest to the person speaking so I don't need to direct my
| eyes at the bottom of the screen and can have both the text and
| the actor's face in my field of vision?
|
| Anyways, just some random thoughts from someone who is
| increasingly annoyed by not being able to make out what the hell
| people are saying on screen anymore!
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