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   Wokebloke for Democracy (dougiec3@libretooth.gr)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Dec-2024 05:59:15 JST Wokebloke for Democracy

   Very good explanation of why, even with digital sound, modern movies and streaming series are hard to follow without subtitles.
   We watched a movie (DVD, not streaming) of a movie from the last century, and every word was clear and easy to understand.
   https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/story/why-movie-dialogue-is-so-hard-to-understand-these-days-163708191.html
   #Movies #MovieMaking #Digital #Analog

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     Miakoda (hellomiakoda@pdx.social)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Dec-2024 05:59:14 JST Miakoda

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     @dougiec3 What they said about the size of speaker in TVs is so very accurate. I used to have a surround system on my old school TV, but when that was down for a while, I had no trouble with the TV's built in speakers (besides some sources being unvailbe due to how my system was set up, and a whole unit was out for repair).

     The flat TV I have now? I didn't plan on a soundbar, I have 3D headphones for movies... but the speakers on this TV were so tinny and flat they were useless!

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     Miakoda (hellomiakoda@pdx.social)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Dec-2024 06:00:11 JST Miakoda

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     @punishmenthurts @shyestrange @dougiec3 @roknrol Is that why my surround capable headphones just don't do surroundy stuff on some movies?!

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     Goiterzan/Amygdalai Lama (punishmenthurts@autistics.life)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Dec-2024 06:00:12 JST Goiterzan/Amygdalai Lama

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     @shyestrange @dougiec3 @roknrol
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     I was an early adopter of surround sound, the TV speakers were always a problem. But yes, that has all been enshittified, the encoding for surround isn’t supported through the networks or by all providers. Frustrating.

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     🍄💀Shye Strange💀🍄 (shyestrange@deadrobots.social)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Dec-2024 06:00:13 JST 🍄💀Shye Strange💀🍄

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     @dougiec3 @roknrol Because I'm autistic, I'm sensitive to sound anyway, and have always found understanding people on TV and movies difficult at times. But I find subtitles distracting as well. So, I route the audio from my TV through a compressor and EQ. The compressor squashes it so the dialogue, music and sound effects are a similar level. Then the EQ takes away frequencies around 500hz where voices sounds muffled. Then up around 4khz where voices generally have clarity #actuallyautistic

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     Miakoda (hellomiakoda@pdx.social)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Dec-2024 06:03:22 JST Miakoda

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     @punishmenthurts @shyestrange @dougiec3 @roknrol I miss my old surround system. It had 2 cool features...

     Mono Movie - made mono sources less crap, gave them a surround-ish feel. My god this was fun with NES games!

     Night Mode - It pushed the dialog to center rear, making it easier to hear dialog at lower volumes (since the rear speakers were much closer to my head), and softened the punch of explosions.

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     Goiterzan/Amygdalai Lama (punishmenthurts@autistics.life)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Dec-2024 06:03:23 JST Goiterzan/Amygdalai Lama

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     @shyestrange @dougiec3 @roknrol
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     I think for me the pinnacle, the ultimate was movies with music, my VHS I think, of The Commitments, played at home in Dolby Pro Logic, 90s. But then digital in the 10s, for a minute you could watch tenniis and feel you had to duck for the ball. I guess that was the real peak?

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     Miakoda (hellomiakoda@pdx.social)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Dec-2024 06:13:48 JST Miakoda

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     @dougiec3 @punishmenthurts @shyestrange @roknrol I know the device it's connected to is more than capable of outputting the suround. I didn't think it would do it with the headphones, as it was made for games, but it definitely does.... but some movies, including some I know had surround, just give me stereo. This happens more often from streaming services. Most DVDs and Bluray are as surroundy as expected.

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     Wokebloke for Democracy (dougiec3@libretooth.gr)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Dec-2024 06:13:49 JST Wokebloke for Democracy

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     @hellomiakoda @punishmenthurts @shyestrange @roknrol
     I know my tv puts out sound that seems off center. Could be your headphones are getting sound from a device that isn't transmitting that surround sound?

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     Miakoda (hellomiakoda@pdx.social)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Dec-2024 06:15:50 JST Miakoda

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     @dougiec3 @punishmenthurts @shyestrange @roknrol Also, movies with working surround on disc that I ripped correctly to my server, also play fine via the app on that same device.

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     Miakoda (hellomiakoda@pdx.social)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Dec-2024 06:17:46 JST Miakoda

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     @dougiec3 @punishmenthurts @shyestrange @roknrol "Surroundy as expected" takes in to account this headphone set up is probably faking it. It does surprisingly well at faking it though.

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     Miakoda (hellomiakoda@pdx.social)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Dec-2024 06:19:05 JST Miakoda

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     @dougiec3 @punishmenthurts @shyestrange @roknrol That same device allows me to try faking it via my TVs speakers. Curiously, I gave that a try. Oh that was LAUGHABLY bad!