Please, an Apple TV feature that just automatically turns on Closed Captioning whenever you Skip Back 15 seconds.
I don't want to ask Siri every time.
Why do all these 20-somethings have closed captions turned on?
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Re: Why do all these 20-somethings have closed captions turned on?
#202Speaking of captioning, why the expletive deleted do I have to turn on captions every single time I enter a meeting in Google Meet, Teams, Zoom (which makes it really hard to get captions), Slack Huddle (which I’m not sure if it has captions or not now because the last time I was in one I couldn’t find a setting to turn it on), BlueJeans, etc.? I’m signed into every single one of these and using a dedicated app in many cases and yet every single one forgets that I always need captions. In contrast, all the video streaming services that I use don’t require me to turn on captioning after the first time.
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#203> Captions can also facilitate multitasking I have a hard time believing this. Captions demand more attention if anything. I can passively "watch" a video by only listening to the audio, but I can't passively read. I think that the phenomenon described in the article may actually be a symptom of a much deeper social change. Listening and auditory comprehension were critical skills for communication and preservation o…
> I have a hard time believing this. Captions demand more attention if anything. I can passively "watch" a video by only listening to the audio, but I can't passively read. I do this. I can parse what is happening on screen and read the captions in a fraction of the time the thing actually plays out, then I got a few seconds to do something else. Usually I would be reading HN or something while I tune out the video f…
> I do this. I can parse what is happening on screen and read the captions in a fraction of the time the thing actually plays out, then I got a few seconds to do something else. Usually I would be reading HN or something while I tune out the video for a few seconds, before glancing at it again to catch the next bit.
That kind of context switching really does sound terrible to me. In my case, I speed up the content itself by 3 to 5x speed so that I can process more information at once and any boring bits are basically sped through. It's helped me retain a lot more information than simply watching at 1x speed.
Re: Why do all these 20-somethings have closed captions turned on?
#204I'm in my 30s and I use subtitles for everything because I don't have the absolute best hearing and I was an anime fan growing up so it never felt weird. Doesn't the Wall Street Journal have better things to be doing other than trying to make a false generational divide over subtitles?
Like seriously, this kind of needless naval gazing from a supposedly serious outlet just frustrates me so much.
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#205I'm in my 30s and I use subtitles for everything because I don't have the absolute best hearing and I was an anime fan growing up so it never felt weird. Doesn't the Wall Street Journal have better things to be doing other than trying to make a false generational divide over subtitles? Like seriously, this kind of needless naval gazing from a supposedly serious outlet just frustrates me so much.
Fully agreed - it's not a generational thing at all. They're just continuing the "nolan bad" meme that's been going around in double force since tenet came out. Watch them make another article about subtitles focusing on nolan soon enough, it's coming for sure.
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#206Modern sound engineers seem to expect that I own several thousand dollars of high-end sound equipment capable of reproducing the full dynamic range they've sculpted. It's super annoying.
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#207One more vote for terrible audio mixes and one for actors who mumble their dialog. Whenever I watch movies with my wife, we constantly have to fiddle with the remote control. The loud parts (including explosions and music) are too loud for her, so we have to turn the volume down during those parts, but the dialog is too quiet and mumbly for me to hear, so we turn the volume up during those parts. We now just keep the…
Whenever I'm watching a modern movie, sticking a compressor on the audio is a must. Open VLC settings, search for "compressor". It's programmer UI, but it does exactly what it says.
Re: Why do all these 20-somethings have closed captions turned on?
#208One more vote for terrible audio mixes and one for actors who mumble their dialog. Whenever I watch movies with my wife, we constantly have to fiddle with the remote control. The loud parts (including explosions and music) are too loud for her, so we have to turn the volume down during those parts, but the dialog is too quiet and mumbly for me to hear, so we turn the volume up during those parts. We now just keep the…
The Apple TV has a setting called "reduce loud sounds" which helps with this problem. I'm sure you can find it on other devices too. My Sony TV also has a sound setting for enhanced dialogue which might help as well. Can't really help with the actors thing, though I think I'd rather characters that are truer to life than sound like they're acting on stage, personally.
Cheap hack for most setups is to boost the center speaker. Usually that’s just used for dialogue.
Re: Why do all these 20-somethings have closed captions turned on?
#209> Captions can also facilitate multitasking I have a hard time believing this. Captions demand more attention if anything. I can passively "watch" a video by only listening to the audio, but I can't passively read. I think that the phenomenon described in the article may actually be a symptom of a much deeper social change. Listening and auditory comprehension were critical skills for communication and preservation o…
I disagree, I have a harder time paying attention to people speaking than reading. Reading is faster, much faster than waiting for people finish a sentence.
Then again, maybe you're right, I don't process auditory language and when I was in university, I skipped classes to instead read the textbook back to back without a teacher distracting me by yammering around.
Re: Why do all these 20-somethings have closed captions turned on?
#210One more vote for terrible audio mixes and one for actors who mumble their dialog. Whenever I watch movies with my wife, we constantly have to fiddle with the remote control. The loud parts (including explosions and music) are too loud for her, so we have to turn the volume down during those parts, but the dialog is too quiet and mumbly for me to hear, so we turn the volume up during those parts. We now just keep the…
10 years after I bought some pairs of wireless headphones to avoid waking our newborn baby while watching a movie, they still get daily use for exactly this reason. Having the drivers right by our ears with individual volume controls gives us each the best audio, but it is unfortunate we need to resort to it.