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Ask HN: Should movie theaters show closed captions you need glasses to hide?
Maybe these could be low-tech glasses similar to those used for 3d movies?
- JohnFen 1y agoIf people are going to be forced to wear special glasses, wouldn't it be better to show captions in a way that you need special glasses to see, rather than to hide? If I had to wear special glasses to see movies, I'd be much less likely to go see movies.
- jasonthorsness 1y agoHa yeah, I think the OP idea is influenced by the solution of using polarization. But maybe you could do something funky with parallax instead and have subtitle-seating and non-subtitle-seating, then nobody needs the glasses!
- amichail 1y agoWhat about the people who have to plug their ears because the sound volume is too high?
- JohnFen 1y agoWhat about them? That seems like a different topic. I assume they're less likely to go see movies as well, though.
- amichail 1y agoMovie theaters would be able to lower the sound volume if they show closed captions.
- JohnFen 1y agoThe volume of movie theaters is not because they think people can't hear adequately if it were lower. It's for psychological/experiential reasons. The volume would not be different if there were closed captioning.
- joezydeco 1y agoGiven the trend of everyone putting text on every social media video and people leaving captions on streaming services all the time, perhaps it will just be a standard in another decade or two. https://raleighmag.com/2023/09/subtitles-craze/ https://raleighmag.com/2023/09/subtitles-craze/ Netflix is already adapting to this trend. https://about.netflix.com/en/news/introducing-a-new-way-to-experience-subtitles https://about.netflix.com/en/news/introducing-a-new-way-to-e...