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Re:Why do all these 20-somethings have closed captions turne... by knorker on Sunday September 18, 2022 @04:43AM (#32885675)
On good TVs under perfect lighting conditions only.

Try watching handmaid's tale without blackout blinds.

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Re:Why do all these 20-somethings have closed captions turne... by Godel_unicode on Sunday September 18, 2022 @09:07PM (#32893118)
Good, sounds like we agree that the problem is the way they’re displayed, not the way they’re mastered.

If you want to watch a dark scene in bright light then you should have a button on your display/remote that adjusts the settings to make that possible. Tons of people have produced brightened versions of those scenes and put them on YouTube, it’s definitely possible. You can always remove dynamic range in post, hard to create it if the source material doesn’t have it though.

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Re:Why do all these 20-somethings have closed captions turne... by knorker on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @11:39AM (#32913249)
You should not need to adjust anything, volume or brightness, in the middle of episodes/movies.

These scenes are poorly edited. I should not have to live-edit them with my remote while watching. I'll do a poor job, and it takes me out of the experience.

These edits don't "take advantage of" dynamic range; they abuse it.

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