Closed captioning on? It’s a generational thing - AP-NORC
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A third often use subtitles or closed captioning when watching movies or television. Younger adults are more likely than older adults to regularly do so.
  • lazynooblet@lazysoci.alEnglish
    2·
    6 months ago

    My wife is deaf so the increased popularity for English subtitles has been a real boon for her expanded TV choices.

  • crunchy@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    13·
    6 months ago

    Current audio quality and mixing, but from my personal experience, I needed subtitles even back in the 90s, but my parents were (and still are) weird about it, like it’s shameful somehow. Not because I was dead or hard of hearing, turns out I just have a hard time processing things if there isn’t another stimulus.

    Bonus: https://youtu.be/KvOkQXvpAF0

  • orclev@lemmy.worldEnglish
    28·
    6 months ago

    It’s because TV speakers are crap and audio mixing is worse. You can’t hear shit. I’ve got good headphones and I’ll watch something on my computer and it’s perfectly understandable. Then I’ll watch the same exact thing on my TV and it’s a garbled mess with the dialog drowned out by ambient noise, explosions, and the music score. No amount of playing with the audio mix seems to fix it. So yeah, subtitles it is.