Yes, there is a sound mode button on the remotes, but I don't play much with it. Honestly I hate the idea of always playing with adjustments on remotes and stuff.
Ah. Well that's good that they've improved them.
There is not one single Peter Capaldi episode of Doctor Who where I didn't have trouble understanding at least half of what the characters were mumbling waytoofast. Repeat viewings didn't help. And I've watched both on my TV and online. The actors simply do not speak clearly.This topic could go just about anywhere, put this seemed the most likely place.
Over the past few years I've noticed an evermore recurring issue. And from what I'm getting talking to others I'm far from being alone experience.
Television programs and films are getting harder to understand.
Allow me to clarify. It really came to a head (for me) some weeks ago when I rented the film Noah. There were parts I found completely unintelligible. If it wasn't obtrusive music at the right sound level and frequency to overcome what was being said it was actors (particularly Russell Crowe) who mumbled their lines such that I couldn't make anything out except the occasional word.
This is something I'm noticing evermore often with contemporary films and television programs. I really noticed it trying to watch Gotham these past two weeks. Either it's too obtrusive music or the characters are seemingly mumbling. I get frustrated and find myself thinking, "Speak the hell up and enunciate clearly, dammit!"
I don't have this issue with all programs. If I watch Murdoch Mysteries (a contemporary production) I hear everything. If I watch older films and television shows I hear everything. If I watch the news or sports broadcasts I hear everything. There are contemporary films I've watched where I heard everyuthing.
Yes, sometimes you can miss the odd thing where you can still get an idea of what was said in context of what happens before and after. But it's happening ever more often where whole passages of dialogue are lost to too loud music or actors mubling.
I know I've spoken to quite a few people who have experienced the same thing.
Anyone else?
There is not one single Peter Capaldi episode of Doctor Who where I didn't have trouble understanding at least half of what the characters were mumbling waytoofast. Repeat viewings didn't help. And I've watched both on my TV and online. The actors simply do not speak clearly.This topic could go just about anywhere, put this seemed the most likely place.
Over the past few years I've noticed an evermore recurring issue. And from what I'm getting talking to others I'm far from being alone experience.
Television programs and films are getting harder to understand.
Allow me to clarify. It really came to a head (for me) some weeks ago when I rented the film Noah. There were parts I found completely unintelligible. If it wasn't obtrusive music at the right sound level and frequency to overcome what was being said it was actors (particularly Russell Crowe) who mumbled their lines such that I couldn't make anything out except the occasional word.
This is something I'm noticing evermore often with contemporary films and television programs. I really noticed it trying to watch Gotham these past two weeks. Either it's too obtrusive music or the characters are seemingly mumbling. I get frustrated and find myself thinking, "Speak the hell up and enunciate clearly, dammit!"
I don't have this issue with all programs. If I watch Murdoch Mysteries (a contemporary production) I hear everything. If I watch older films and television shows I hear everything. If I watch the news or sports broadcasts I hear everything. There are contemporary films I've watched where I heard everyuthing.
Yes, sometimes you can miss the odd thing where you can still get an idea of what was said in context of what happens before and after. But it's happening ever more often where whole passages of dialogue are lost to too loud music or actors mubling.
I know I've spoken to quite a few people who have experienced the same thing.
Anyone else?
I watch a lot of British TV, from "britcoms" to documentaries to Shakespeare. Most of the accents don't bother me. But some make it seem like the actors have cotton or marbles in their mouths, or in the case of the current Doctor Who, they just talk too damn fast. That, plus the mumbling, make it impossible to understand. I know it's not just me, because now I know there are people on 3 different forums with the same complaint.
There are a number of shows these days where I hear myself thinking of Sister Francis William back in second grade berating students to 'enunciate!'
I call it "mumbling." And frankly, I prefer a slightly more theatrical style of acting. For me, one of the pleasures of watching an old TV show like the classic Twilight Zone or the original Outer Limits is the literate dialogue, where actors enunciate clearly and speak in complete sentences.
