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Originally Posted by arjaybe
I use subtitles a lot, especially with the new shows where they think they have to play music continuously, and as loudly as the dialogue.
As for the carriage returns, undoubtedly it will involve a lot of manual proofing.
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As much as my nostalgia, etc., prompts me to watch "Inspector Lewis," I shall have a party and proffer champagne on the day that Barrington Pheloung retires, and I never have to listen to him overwhelm Masterpiece/Mystery again. Honestly, I think that he's deaf, and so is their mixer.
Appalling.
Now, having said that, yes, I do know that the UK systems and ours, for broadcast, are different, and it's highly likely that it sounds just spiffy there. Well, kids, this ain't the 1950's, and any moron can remix something today, for an international audience. I mean, hell, PBS feels justified in "cutting out" the BAD WORDS (Like, ASS. Really???), and editing it for "time," so that we can scrunch our foreheads and wonder about some plot point that was omitted...and they can't remix the bloody thing, to make the music not absurdly over-loud?
(FWIW, I've basically moved over to watching UK and AUS, etc., TV via streaming. Roku, using either Acorn or Netflix or Hulu. At least I don't get my storyline "pre-digested" for me by the bunch of easily-shocked 5th-grade teachers that are doing that at PBS. I confess I haven't tried IL over there, to see if the music is any less onerous, but I'll see if I can spot it and give it a go.)
Hitch