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I'm mildly hard of hearing and the poor audio mixes in movies and shows are very difficult for me. For example with House of the Dragon, there is no volume wher
by code_biologist 4y ago
I'm mildly hard of hearing and the poor audio mixes in movies and shows are very difficult for me. For example with House of the Dragon, there is no volume where I can understand all the words in quiet conversations without blowing my ears out in battle scenes. Fiddling with the volume constantly is annoying. I've looked for dynamic volume features, but my TV doesn't have them and I'm not interested in a new TV or sound system.
So it's subtitles — especially for shows with poor audio mixes, where people whisper, talk quietly, or with heavy accents.
- ad404b8a372f2b9 4y agoI don't know what's going on with that, it's gotten so bad these past few years. I'm not hard of hearing but there are regularly shows where I can't hear the dialog at all because of the mix. Some recent ones that come to mind were Tenet and the Invincible tv-show.
- selcuka 4y ago> Some recent ones that come to mind were Tenet and the Invincible tv-show. It is a known issue: [1] > Every time a new Christopher Nolan movie comes out [...] one complaint which seems almost universal at this point is that the sound mixing in many of his movies has resulted in dialogue that is frequently muffled and sometimes even downright inaudible. [1] https://www.slashfilm.com/577777/christopher-nolan-sound-mixing/ https://www.slashfilm.com/577777/christopher-nolan-sound-mix...
- cassianoleal 4y agoI've just got a 7.1 system and suddenly I don't need subtitles nearly as much. I suspect that's the main issue - mixes are done for multi-channel, and if you have fewer channels they get mashed together. Because music, sound effects and background noise come out of multiple channels, and voice tends to come out of the central channel only, it gets lost in the mix.