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Originally Posted by poohbear_nc
Yeah - you really need captioning for those thick accents.
And, Perry Mason and Wild, Wild West are favorites of mine too.
I read the Vera books long ago, might have to do some re-reads.
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It's really a shame--we've been watchers of BritTelly for dog's years but as Mr. H's hearing has gone, even though he now has top-of-the-line aids (and then some), he just can't catch enough to hybridize his way (sound plus reading for what he misses) for them. And some shows or movies, for example, almost anything that Guy Richie does, fuhgeddaboudit.
And to be fair, for anyone like him, it's like...speed-reading. He can't see what's going on, on the screen, because he's too busy reading. He can't tell one character from the next, because he doesn't see them enough to say "oh, well, Gracie is the brunette and Grizelda is the blonde..."
Happily, I do like a lot fo the older shows that didn't sound-effect you into next week, and he can hear those and movies from the 30's and early 40's quite well. But the moment you have two people talking at once, or voices over sound effects, forget it.
Sigh.
Hitch