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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
I have a weird aversion to both dubbed tv, and tv where reading the subtitles is required for comprehension. Dubbing is only mildly annoying, but still... lips not jiving with the soundtrack throws me off my game. And while I'm positive that I'm missing out on some fantastic shows/movies, I simply cannot "read TV". It drives me bonkers. I don't mind having captions on for backup--so I can get past those intolerable moments where visitors insist on talking over dialogue (or for brief conversations in other languages), but I DO consider myself a fan of cinematography, and I can't SEE what's happening when I'm zeroed in on reading the words at the bottom of the screen. Reading for comprehension makes everything else go away. It may as well be book. A book where no one is describing anything that's happening (except, of course, to make note that there's a dog barking somewhere in the distance).
So until I get my babelfish, I'm limited to watching TV that is filmed with actors who are speaking my native tongue.
I still try watching subtitled (subtitled because the language being spoken is not my own) or dubbed TV/Movies from time to time just to see if my tiny brain has evolved any since the last time I tried, but I'm not holding out much hope at this point. I'm destined to read books and to watch TV. And rarely the twain shall meet. *shrug*
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Yes and that's how he is, too. He tries--he has some fairly significant hearing loss, from job-related stuff and the world's most-expensive aids, mind you, but the aids can only do so much.
It's not
merely dubbed TV. He has the same problem with most US- and UK-shows, too, especially the UK shows, which go through a lot of processes before being able to be cast here, and those have sound issues, too. I've lost track of the shows that get piped through, in Streaming, for example, that are actually in stereo--stereo!--not Dolby, etc. so you lose the main center voice channel and those are totally lost to him. We are constantly trying to find stuff that he can hear adequately. Unfortunately, for whatever reason, in many instances, it is shows from 20-30 years ago that are "hearable" and not hoes made today. (Don't get me started about layered sound effects.)
(sigh).
Hitch