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Stranger Things creator says turn off “garbage” settings

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Re: Stranger Things creator says turn off “garbage” settings

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Heavily compressed.

If you check it will say the resolution is AMAZING. Despite being a subscriber I pirate their shows to get some pixels.

Things can be both high resolution and still low quality due to being overcompressed.

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post #66

The fact that I have to turn on closed captioning to understand anything tells me these producers have no idea what we want and shouldn’t be telling us what settings to use.

My personal theory of the case is that mid-band hearing loss is more common than people want to admit and tends to go undiagnosed until old age.

Just did a hearing test last week, still in the very good range.

The sound is mud, we've just become accustomed.

Re: Stranger Things creator says turn off “garbage” settings

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post #66

The fact that I have to turn on closed captioning to understand anything tells me these producers have no idea what we want and shouldn’t be telling us what settings to use.

I have the same sound issues with a lot of stuff, my current theory at this point is that TVs have gotten bigger and we're further away from them but speakers have stayed kinda shitty... but things are being mixed by people using headphones or otherwise good sound equipment it's very funny how when watching a movie on my macbook pro it's better for me to just use HDMI for the video to my TV but keep on using my MBP s…

It is a well known issue: https://zvox.com/blogs/news/why-can-t-i-hear-dialogue-on-tv-...

I don't find the source anymore but I think that I saw that it was even a kind of small conspiracy on tv streaming so that you set your speakers louder and then the advertisement time arrive you will hear them louder than your movie.

Officially it is just that they switch to a better encoding for ads (like mpeg2 to MPEG-4 for DVB) but unofficially for the money as always...

Re: Stranger Things creator says turn off “garbage” settings

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post #66

The fact that I have to turn on closed captioning to understand anything tells me these producers have no idea what we want and shouldn’t be telling us what settings to use.

Never had an issue with Stranger Things. Maybe you're using the internal speakers?

Re: Stranger Things creator says turn off “garbage” settings

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Thanks for the thought but from what I’ve heard from friends I’ll be keeping the final season unwatched just like I did with the last 2 episodes of GoT.

It's been a while - I remember liking the first two seasons. Season three felt a bit silly to me without going into much detail (we need a spoiler text wrapper for HN). Season four has a lot of "zombie-esque" stuff which just doesn't have near the dread horror that the first two seasons did IMHO. Haven't seen any of the final season.

Re: Stranger Things creator says turn off “garbage” settings

#107

The "soap opera" effect is real, I don't enjoy it.

for me it ruins cinematic content, for sports i don't mind

It ruins it for me as well but from my understanding many people can't tell the difference.

Re: Stranger Things creator says turn off “garbage” settings

#109
Anyone who mentions: "the soap opera effect" is someone who used to watch soap operas. The reason they dislike it, is their own bad taste.

I like how it looks because it is "high quality videogame effect" for me. 60 hz, 120hz, 144hz, you only get this on a good videogame setup.

Re: Stranger Things creator says turn off “garbage” settings

#110

The "soap opera" effect is real, I don't enjoy it.

The TrueMotion stuff drives me crazy. Chalk it up to being raised on movies filmed at 24fps, plus a heavy dose of FPS games (Wolf, Doom, Quake) as a kid, but frame rate interpolation instantly makes it feel less like a movie and more like I’m watching a weird “Let’s Play.”
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