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Subject: Re: interesting article on the understanding modern movie dialogue problem
Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2024 16:28:45 -0500
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On 24 Dec 2024, super70s <super70s@super70s.invalid> wrote in
rec.arts.tv: 

> https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/story/why-movie-dialogue-is-so-hard
> -to-understand-these-days-163708191.html 
> 
> 
> I didn't take the guy's Twitter poll but I would've been included
> in that 83%. 
> 
> I don't think he mentions anything about a setting that comes with
> some Blu-Ray or DVD players -- in my old Panasonic Blue-Ray
> there's a "Dialog Enhancer" setting that is supposed to pump up
> the dialogue (in the center channel of a 4-speaker setup) and I
> have it turned on but I still find myself using subtitles often.

I don't go to movie theaters very often, but I have noticed this effect 
several times there. A few times there weren't many other people in the 
theater, but the presentation seemed to be automated for a packed  
house, and the loud sound effects were dangerously deafening. I have 
had to leave the theater in the middle to try to talk to a manager to 
have him lower the sound. Sometimes there was nobody there who could or 
would do it, so I demanded a refund and left.

At home I often have had to resort to closed captions to understand the   
indistinct, mumble dialog.

So, yes, this is a real thing.