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Stranger Things creator says turn off “garbage” settings

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socalgal2 wrote: post #152
pupppet wrote: 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.

Conspriacy theory ... TVs have bad sound so you're compelled to by a soundbar for $$$ I've certainly had the experience of hard to hear dialog but I think (could be wrong) that that's only really happened with listening through the TV speakers. Since I live in an apartment, 99% of the time I'm listening with headphones and haven't noticed that issue in a long time.

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Post by snozolli »

Shorel wrote: post #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.

It's called the soap opera effect because soap operas were shot on video tape, instead of film, to save money. It wasn't just soap operas, either. Generally, people focus on frame rate, but there are other factors, too, like how video sensors capture light across the spectrum differently than film.

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Post by throw-12-16 »

szszrk wrote: post #212
redox99 wrote: post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

> Maybe you're using the internal speakers? Which is just another drama that should not be on consumers shoulders. Every time I visit friends with newer TV than mine I am floored by how bad their speakers are. Even the same brand and price-range. Plus the "AI sound" settings (often on by default) are really bad. I'd love to swap my old tv as it shows it's age, but spending a lot of money on a new one that can't play…

Just buy a decent external surround sound system, has nothing to do with the TV and will last a long long time.

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Post by croisillon »

ifh-hn wrote: post #220
ramax9 wrote: post #199

> regular backup of your mail. Google's Takeout service is a straightforward way to achieve this. Takeout is a horrible way to do regular backups. You have to manualy request it, it takes a long time to generate, manual download... I only use it for monthly full backups. Much better way for continous incremental backups is IMAP client that locally mirrors incomming emails (Mutt or Thunderbird). It can be configured t…

This is the best comment to randomly appear in the thread. I love a good chuckle in the morning. Kinda wish I knew the thread this was meant for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46384153

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Post by almostkindatech »

ramax9 wrote: post #199

> regular backup of your mail. Google's Takeout service is a straightforward way to achieve this. Takeout is a horrible way to do regular backups. You have to manualy request it, it takes a long time to generate, manual download... I only use it for monthly full backups. Much better way for continous incremental backups is IMAP client that locally mirrors incomming emails (Mutt or Thunderbird). It can be configured t…

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46384153

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Post by throw-12-16 »

TimorousBestie wrote: post #89
pupppet wrote: 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.

Its simpler than that.

Flatscreen TV's have shitty speakers.

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Post by 0-_-0 »

eterevsky wrote: post #228
eviks wrote: post #148

Are there any creators that evolved and shoot at high frame rates that eliminate the need for motion interpolation and its artifacts or is the grip of the bad old film culture still too strong? (there are at least some 48fps films)

James Cameron is one of the few who do this.

But the high FPS version is only in cinemas

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Post by xnx »

deckar01 wrote: post #75
xnx wrote: post #34

I hope AI tools allow for better fan edits. There's enough of a foundation and source footage to redo the later episodes of Stranger Things ... The Matrix ... etc.

I need to test the new audio demuxing model out for fan edits. Separating music, dialog, and sound effects into stems would make continuity much easier. Minor rewrites would be interesting, but considering Tron Ares botched AI rewrite dubbing so bad I’m not holding my breath.

I wouldn't be surprised if the free/open voice cloning and lip-synch tools of today are better than whatever "professional" tools they were using however many months/year ago they did that edit.

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Post by sfn42 »

KeplerBoy wrote: post #223
snakeboy wrote: post #216

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Makes sense, but how does this explain the fact that this problem seems recent, or at least to have worsened recently ?

TV shows changed completely in the streaming age it seems. These days they really are just super long movies with glacial pacing to keep users subscribed.

As opposed to the House model where every episode is exactly the same with some superficial differences?

I like the long movie format, lots of good shows to watch. Movies feel too short to properly tell a story. It's just like a few highlights hastily shown and then it's over.

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