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Subject: Re: interesting article on the understanding modern movie dialogue problem
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On 2024-12-24 20:01:42 +0000, moviePig said:
> On 12/24/2024 4:36 AM, super70s wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> Seems never an issue with older shows/movies.  The price of "realism"...

It's usually more due to the overly loud continual background music 
they insist on playing almost all the time these days.  :-(

There's a similar issue with many shows these days having scenes that 
are too dark to see anything.

Then there's the idiocy of people sending / recieving cellphone text 
messsages, where the text is either too small or glimpsed too quickly 
to be able to be read by the audience, so why bother showing it at all?