Maybe they were watching Tenet and left CC on.
Why do all these 20-somethings have closed captions turned on?
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#62Why don't cinemas have them then? It's because people are listening to shows through terrible audio setups by default
This is one (of many to be fair) reasons I quite dislike the theater. Others being "free" food/drinks, my dog, my comfortable couch, pausing, and my bathroom. I've wondered before if they could give people special glasses (a la 3D glasses) that would show the "hidden" subtitles at the bottom. But even that wouldn't get me back in a theater.
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#63Hard to hear for me. Also non-native English speaker.
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#64I’m also a big fan of watching with CC (sometimes it can be genuinely hard to pick up what someone says and it can be key dialogue). However anything in the comedy genre is the exception since CC ruin the timing of the jokes.
I absolutely get the worry (and reality) of jokes being ruined. In the end I bite the bullet because of the same reason I want CC's on all the time: I just miss or mishear things when I don't, sometimes to the point I don't understand the joke.
That said, sometimes subs (from places like OpenSubtitles) are laughable bad in that they don't know the "in-universe" words for a show (comedy or otherwise) and do best-guesses/phonetic spellings of things they aren't sure of which is it's own issue.
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#65Another reason that I can think of is that many people are watching content at a increased playback rate. I personally limit that to education content because for things like comedy it can mess with pacing. But I have friends that have used it while watching really long shows. It doesn't have to be much faster but if you think about a 10 hour series, that is approximately an hour saved. I recognize that this seems od…
I watch everything on 1.4x, but I would watch it faster if it wouldn't run into buffering issues and get glitchy. Podcasts are normally 2.2x.
I just find I enjoy taking the information in more when I can do it quickly. If my brain has no trouble operating at that speed, I might as well take advantage of the chance to get more new ideas in my head!
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#66As a gen-x'r I find it incredibly distracting to keep subtitles on, and always turn them off whenever possible.
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#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
Even on my nice 2.1 setup on my PC, I always put captions on. It's because re-reading a word I didn't understand is much faster and easier than re-hearing (in my head) a word I didn't understand. It's even happened with my spouse, in the same room, speaking the same dialect of American English as me, with the same accent. I mis-hear one word, and it bleeds into the next word, and I need to think for a few seconds or…
I think mishearing a word causes an effect that feels something like a mental mispredict leading to a pipeline flush. There's definitely a delay to refill that pipeline.
This is the best way I've ever heard it described
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#68The fact that there's a claimed generational gap here speaks more to the values of the generations re: passive vs active entertainment. I could also ask: "Why do all these 60-Somethings have the TV on as background noise while doing other tasks?" To me it seems closed-caption usage is correlated with actually paying attention to television consumption. People who have their TV on at all hours, as background entertain…
I agree, but also find it surprising that younger generations are more focused on what they are watching.
I'm a background watcher for sure, and this trend with CC suggests to me that the whole "2nd screen" thing isn't playing with the younger generation.
Any insights as to why that may be?
To give more context, I was always a "background media" person. Even as a kid I'd draw while in front of the TV, I was never a focused participant.
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#69Because filmmakers don't know how to handle dialogue in multichannel mixes anymore.
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#7031 but yeah, I've had subs on for almost a decade now? Maybe only 6-7 years?
For me I find I miss things without the subs on. Whispered/background dialog that I'm unsure how anyone is supposed to hear/understand being top of list but also sound mixing seems to be terrible by default and it's hard to hear/understand characters even in a quiet room sometimes. I read quickly so subs have never been an issue to me, I can scan and parse the subs and be looking back at the video in no time at all.
For foreign content (like Anime) I use dubs + subs (the subs are of the initial English translation before the dubs were done) because it gives 2 passes at any given line. I find it very interesting to see how they change things between the two and it sometimes paints a fuller picture.