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Re:Movie dialogue has gotten more difficult to understand by thaumasiotes on Thursday December 02, 2021 @01:48PM (#29420561)
> I watch most everything with subtitles. Not just for this reason, but because the vocal track tends to be really low and the MUSIC and GUN FIRE track really high

I just noticed this trying to watch Amazon's new Wheel of Time series. It doesn't matter what the volume on the TV is - the background music and effects are so much louder than the dialog that I can't understand what people are saying.

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Re:Movie dialogue has gotten more difficult to understand by wincy on Thursday December 02, 2021 @01:55PM (#29420679)
I had the same issue with Wheel of Time! I’d nearly blow out my ear drums wearing AirPods in a battle, so I’d turn down the volume, then there’d be dialogue and I couldn’t hear it. Very frustrating.
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Re:Movie dialogue has gotten more difficult to understand by klyrs on Thursday December 02, 2021 @08:21PM (#29425475)
Had this experience with several series on Netflix recently. It seems correlated to shows that also do a lot of really dark scenes where the screen looks nearly black. I really don't get it.
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