posted by Laley23

Legit question, how do you see the scene as intended if you are reading the whole time?

How are you able to stay on the road and read signs at the same time?

posted by Automatik

How are you able to stay on the road and read signs at the same time?

I don't need to pay attention to the roads detail? I also would crash my car in 2 minutes if I was reading a billboard that was consistently changing and I had to read it all, decipher the meaning. 

TV and film constantly have stuff going on in the peripheral that you need to watch to get the full experience.

posted by Laley23

TV and film constantly have stuff going on in the peripheral that you need to watch to get the full experience.

not necessarily. a lot of dialogue-driven content doesnt have much of anything going on.

And it's not like you're reading a book. It's a line or two. If you're a decent reader you can easily blast through it and still see what is going on.

I like them on and can easily switch back and forth from reading and listening to the speakers. I find myself picking up more subtle jokes and generally digesting content better when they're on vs off.

For live content I always turn them off. The delayed nature is just a distraction at that point

posted by Laley23

I don't need to pay attention to the roads detail? I also would crash my car in 2 minutes if I was reading a billboard that was consistently changing and I had to read it all, decipher the meaning. 

TV and film constantly have stuff going on in the peripheral that you need to watch to get the full experience.

Well I guess my brain is just better. 

I watched Dune this weekend, with subtitles. It was helpful.

posted by Laley23

Legit question, how do you see the scene as intended if you are reading the whole time?

Never thought about it. I guess able to multitask? Similar to eating my lunch and scrolling through Twitter lol  

I often watch sports with subtitles on and the sound off and listen to music instead.

posted by justincredible

I watched Dune this weekend, with subtitles. It was helpful.

posted by Ironman92

When the subtitles come on when I’m staying at a hotel or Air BNB….I basically lose my mind until I figure how to turn it off. 

Sorry not sorry.

posted by CenterBHSFan

I'm GenX, of course we don't use subtitles! I guess since they weren't a thing when we were growing up with our four channels, we never came to rely on them, in general.

As a gen x'er who's hearing is shot, I rely on cc.

Exclusively watch with captioning. Too many shows and movies have louder special effects / soundtracks and softer speaking volume these days. I don’t know if my factory TV settings are whack, it’s a streaming setting, or their audio techs just calibrated things poorly, but I catch way more things with subtitles. Also helps immensely when accents are involved. I think I started using captions during GoT and never went back.

Also hate when the scene is too dark… you can make it apparent that it’s night time or a room is dark without making it impossible to see what is happening. 

I watched the latest episode of Curb and still had caption on. I hated it and turned them back off.

Caption sucks

posted by Ironman92

Caption sucks

you suck

posted by justincredible

I watched the latest episode of Curb and still had caption on. I hated it and turned them back off.

I cannot imagine trying to watch that show with captions. Or anything that Sorkin writes.

I would have paid for them during Dune 2. Felt like a missed some. 

posted by MontyBrunswick

you suck

Not as much as caption

We were on vacation for a week and my wife’s nephew and fiancé house sat for us. When we returned 2 of our tv had closed captioning on

22-24 years old

I've kept subtitles on. I hate myself.

I don't use subtitles, but sometimes I think about it because video or sound effects muffle it so much (there have been numerous articles on this - you're hearing IS NOT going bad).

What I have done is, with surround audio, I've increased the center channel decibels, which is usually mostly just voices.  I've never calibrated it, but my AVR also has something like "dynamic volume modulation" where I think you can set it to further differentiate the voices.  

My AVR also has a useful setting to cap the max volume, whichcomes in handy for those annoying commercials that blast you out of the room (talk about ineffective laws - Congress addressed this but commercials are allowed to go to something like the peak volume, so for the entire 30-second spot you end up at "explosion" sound levels).