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submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by Steve@communick.news to c/movies@piefed.social

For years now I've wondered why people keep complaining about dialog in movies. Now I've spent a few days in a hotel with a TV stuck on default picture and sound settings. I started a Dune marathon. (He just passed the gom jabbar)

Much of the dialog is far quiter than it should be. Enough to be difficult to understand if I didn't know the movie so well. Even softer sounds I know should be there aren't audible at all. While I wouldn't call the loud portions too loud, I'm in a hotel and don't want to disturb my neighbors, so I'm riding the volume some.

I don't have access to the TV's settings, so I don't know if it's possible to improve things at all. I can say, the built in sound on televisions is certainly not what it should be. It could be improved from factory, with better down-mixing and level curves. That might cause issues with other programs though.

Atraides are about to rescue a harvester. I'll get back to it.

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[-] reddig33@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

I’m old enough to remember when the television had one little tinny mono speaker and you could still understand every word people were saying.

[-] Steve@communick.news 2 points 1 week ago

But that's the best there was at the time. I'm not at all saying we should go back. That would suck.

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