Absolutely 🤣 the sound production is usually so bad I have to, in case I miss what is said. Also can’t stand the latest visually very dark productions, so dark you can’t see what is happening. Old, but not hard of hearing and can see fine.
I keep them turned on these days. Actors don't always speak clearly, and also you suddenly need subtitles because of the growing trend to use actors who speak the language of their character which isn't English. I've lost count of how many languages have been spoken in The Agency!!
Always! I don't know when we lost the art of recording sound properly but explosions and adds are blasting, while the dialog is getting completely lost in the background noise. I was so happy when I discovered that some cinemas have sessions with subtitles
I put the subtitles on a lot these days. Otherwise I spend all my time telling my husband what’s happening. He has hearing aids but takes them off before dinner every night.
I also have hearing aids and they are sitting in their nice recharger pockets right next to the computer, so that when I play music it wakes up the kids four doors down - everything is completely normal.
I know. I’m actually surprised and grateful he wears them most of the time. I hated yelling at him. My brother (deaf from measles) survived a house full of five noisy musical siblings and life by turning his off. That said he was a drummer.
My idea of cleaning them is wiping them with a tissue or a wipe.
What does he do?
I am genuinely interested in what other people do.
At my last audiologist visit my right one was clogged with wax and hardly working.
I still adjust the sound.🙄
I muck around with the streaming sound settings and TV sound settings.
Then, watch something older and have to change the sound settings again.
All normal stuff.
I haven't mastered multi focus glasses and the act of lying horizontally and reading yet. :)
Vertigo.
true enough, though I've found on shows like Severance, where the plot is maniacal, there is a lot of quiet talk and whispering, so it helps...and American English can be a thing, that said I've never needed to use subtitles with shows from Scotland...hearing is a weird science..
I worked in pubs in the UK back in the day, the Glaswegian accent is a bit of a fave of mine - also the accent from Leith and Edinburgh...it varies within miles, I love it...
I shared a house in London with three bricklayers(among others, I think there were 16 people at times) from the Gorbals. When they spoke to each other it was utterly unintelligible.
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The little Apple TV decoder has an auto sensor for sub titles. Works really well
It really helped that time the guy was apparently called Graag, but it turned out the Americans were saying Craig.
I 've had hearing aids for about a year now and when I take them out it sounds like I'm in a wind tunnel.
But I still have the subtitles on.
What does he do?
I am genuinely interested in what other people do.
At my last audiologist visit my right one was clogged with wax and hardly working.
I muck around with the streaming sound settings and TV sound settings.
Then, watch something older and have to change the sound settings again.
All normal stuff.
I haven't mastered multi focus glasses and the act of lying horizontally and reading yet. :)
Vertigo.