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I watch lot of movies and TV shows of 90s and before and never really had problem like this, but seems blue ray you can never hear people talking and have to turn the volume up to 70 or higher, but sound effects and other sound get very loud at even 20 so unless you don’t want to wake up the people next door you always turning the TV volume up when they talk and turn the volume down when they are not talking.
Why is Hollywood doing this? Why is it you have to turn the volume up to 70 or higher to hear them? But all other sounds get very loud at volume 20?
With blue ray it like you can never hear people talking and have to turn the volume up to 70 or higher to hear them. But all other sounds get so loud it is like you want to wake everyone up on your street at even volume 20.
Some people have clear voices. I can understand them easily.
Some folks don't speak clearly, or they have an accent. They are hard to understand.
Many of the newer tv's don't have good speakers in them.
They need more volume.
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When we bought our first flat-screen TV we found right away that we needed a good sound bar with a woofer. If you are using just speakers on the TV then there isn't much you can do to help. A good soundbar has settings to "tune" for the type of show, music, movie, sports or voice enhancement, for example.
When we bought our first flat-screen TV we found right away that we needed a good sound bar with a woofer. If you are using just speakers on the TV then there isn't much you can do to help. A good soundbar has settings to "tune" for the type of show, music, movie, sports or voice enhancement, for example.
This. We have an inexpensive sound bar and it makes a huge difference.
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We almost always have subtitles on, it's just a habit now. We're not hard of hearing, it's just a back up if we missed some word, and it's great for when there are accents.
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I stopped watching movies from Hollywood back in the late 80's. Very occasionally I will find a good movie made after that, but it seldom happens.
1- I can't stand the way digital looks. My artist/photographer eyes look at it and thinks, where is the detail, the saturated color? Digital is cheap to make and cheap to edit. Not so a film movie
2- the incessant, glorified, gratuitous violence. It's sickening. The earlier movies may have used violence, but they used it to move the story along. That has totally changed
3- the lack of great actors, scripts and genius directors. It's impossible to imagine a movie like Dr Strangelove being made today or even on the last 20 years. The quality of people and the level of creativity is long gone.
4- the loss of American star power and studios. The big players are the Japanese now, who own Columbia Pictures through their parent company Sony. Some corporation or another, usually foreign, owns not only the studios but he theaters as well. When you go to see a movie now you're simply consuming a consumable, just like that $15 bag of popcorn.
I wonder how much the mid-Atlantic accent ( and more importantly I guess, the lack thereof) has anything to do with this topic as well.
In the old Hollywood movies, actors and actresses were taught to use the Mid-Atlantic accent up into the 50's. People don't do that anymore.
I don't think it's the ONLY contributing factor, but I wonder if it's one of them.
I had heard about that too, thanks for the reminder!
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