Yeah! It was way better when there was no noise, and the captions would fill the entire screen! Now they have "sound" and "color." I don't understand these new-fangled trends.
Edit: I WAS BEING SARCASTIC
this post was submitted on 11 Jun 2024
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The movies are made to be played on fancy, calibrated, Dolby atmos speakers in the theater and when you play at home, they don’t compensate for it. Ideally they would make 2 versions, one for theaters and one for homes
Unless you're watching Tenet, in which case the audio sucks no matter how good your setup is.
Watch using windows 10 computer, right click on sound in task bar, go to “sounds”, click on “playback”, double click on your output, go to “enhancements” and enable “loudness equalization”
It’s a MIRACLE. You can hear voices AND explosions don’t ruin your ears!
I loved that for horror games, you can hear the quiet cues without getting deafened by jump scares
Seriously. Saw that in the cinema and couldn't hear a word.
But could you feel the words?
Relevant Tom Scott video about how sound is mixed and why it makes movie dialogue "quiet" and advertising "loud"
Must have been a Nolan film..
the solution is Dynamic Range Compression. VLC player has it, but it needs to be configured first. One of the big reasons why I don't use netflix/hulu/primevideo/whatever+
From my other comment:
Watch using windows 10 computer, right click on sound in task bar, go to “sounds”, click on “playback”, double click on your output, go to “enhancements” and enable “loudness equalization”
It’s a MIRACLE. You can hear voices AND explosions don’t ruin your ears!
It even works on YouTube and stuff. My partner and I will not watch stuff without it on. We have something else on our Linux box but that’s more fiddly and doesn’t do as good of a job (and I forgot what it’s called hahaha)
This comment alone makes me understand why my 12-year-old reddit account was banned, it was so I could come here and find this comment with this instruction that will massively impact my life.