Yeah, I've given up on new movies. If I want naturalistic without a storyline, I can just go outside. I'm not going to turn the volume up to the level required to hear the mumbled whispers, just to have my hearing damaged by the next gunshot or blast of music.
Subtitles aren't a fix -- they're distracting and therefore annoying. A selectable "classic" audio track would be the fix.
Do any HNers find those cues sufficiently distracting that they’re excited about this feature? I always have subtitles on. While I find those cues occasionally amusing, I’ve never found them to be an impediment to my enjoyment. Maybe they are for people who read slowly? Or because they break the fourth wall?
It's the kind of thing where there is a horse-drawn carriage going by on screen and they print the text "[clip clop clip clop]". If you can't hear it, wouldn't you just want to watch it?
[Window breaking]
[Gun cocking]
[Stairs creaking]
The weird ones for me are where some absolutely unintelligible background murmuring is subtitled. I couldn't tell that any actual words had been spoken and suddenly it's all spelt out.
Not sure why this is being presented a something new here.
Pro Max buyers get "cut" too.
I've seen this option for a long time, I always assumed they create them as the starting point of subtitling in foreign languages. Presumably nobody is French, hard of hearing and wants to watch an English language program.
Progress is always slow but inevitable.
This won't replace the mixer I run my audio through, though. A bit of a pain, and you need a mixer, but try it if you can.
I don't get why this is complicated.
Video games have also had this as an explicit option for many years, maybe decades (Half Life 2 comes to mind).
Not only did Netflix not invent this, I could swear some of their shows have had it for years already...
Cheers to Netflix in the age of user hostile and anti ergonomic patterns (while they still have their fair share of sins in this area, at least one good news)
ChrisArchitect•6h ago