interesting article on the understanding modern movie dialogue problem

[super70s]

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.

[Ed Stasiak]

super70s
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%.

Me too, plus I now exclusively use small wireless earplug type headphones.

[moviePig]

Post by super70s
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"...

[Your Name]

Post by moviePig

Post by super70s
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?

[Nil]

Post by super70s
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.