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It's an audio issue. That never happened in thr early 2000s such as in Lord of the Rings which is weird when you think about the things that have regressed.

Background Music: destroys your eardrums

Brit Lowtalker Villain: we gunna mumbly the wumbky aintwe guvnah

I spent 2K on a capable surround to be able to hear my damned tv.

The downmix to stereo is 90% of the problem. They don't normalize the channels, Front channel is always low, rear channels are always WAY too high. mumble mumble mumble, mumble mumble SCREEEECH CRASH BANG BANG mumble mumble

I think the TV vendors do it so you'll buy their soundbar.

Center Channel / Voices + 5, rear channels -2 and you can actually hear your damned movie.

It's a slippery slope. Listening to a bunch of podcasts while driving will fix that.

I'm re-watching Memento and I'm like "damn, I can hear what everybody is saying clearly." Clearly Nolan wasn't born deaf.

Also, I'm straight, but why didn't Guy Pearce become the hottest male actor in history?

the only good subtitles were the ones on one of the Ghost in the Shell releases - these were fucking closed captions and they featured every single sound and they cycled at breakneck speed and it was a lot of fun to randomly catch some "loud screech" caption

I was watching a Chernobyl documentary. When there were Russian speakers with subtitles already provided, the cc settings added "SPEAKING IN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE" over the useful text. I know a bit of Russian and was able to follow. Still duh

some of the streaming sites have changed how the subs are delivered and their own existing formatting features don't work at all anymore because they were designed for a different file type or something. roku via browser is the latest one i've noticed that on. i can't have my 200% size anymore.

I give talks and training in the accessibility space, and have literally this image when I make a point about audio processing and cognitive issues. Another example "I need to park, hold on let me turn the music down I can't see the parking spots"

Even with headphones, man. The sound departments really need an overhaul or something.

Another perspective.

Once upon a time, it was pretty normal to watch something and not be able to pause or rewind. It was perfectly expected that you might not get every single word and you didn't really think twice about it, just like you don't think about how you miss some words in real life.

But now, we can pause, we can rewind. We can get exactly what was said and we get preoccupied with making sure we understand every single word. So captioning becomes even more critical.

It's not even like I can't hear or anything. It's just sound mixing is terrible.

If a motherfucker could properly mix audio I wouldn't need them.

If I wouldn't have to turn the volume ALL THE WAY UP followed by ALL THE WAY DOWN because your show/movie can't decide if we're whispering or blowing the planet up every ten seconds, I wouldn't need them.