Ask HN: Should movie theaters show closed captions you need glasses to hide?
2•amichail•6mo ago
Maybe these could be low-tech glasses similar to those used for 3d movies?
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JohnFen•6mo ago
If people are going to be forced to wear special glasses, wouldn't it be better to show captions in a way that you need special glasses to see, rather than to hide? If I had to wear special glasses to see movies, I'd be much less likely to go see movies.
jasonthorsness•6mo ago
Ha yeah, I think the OP idea is influenced by the solution of using polarization.
But maybe you could do something funky with parallax instead and have subtitle-seating and non-subtitle-seating, then nobody needs the glasses!
amichail•6mo ago
What about the people who have to plug their ears because the sound volume is too high?
JohnFen•6mo ago
What about them? That seems like a different topic. I assume they're less likely to go see movies as well, though.
amichail•6mo ago
Movie theaters would be able to lower the sound volume if they show closed captions.
JohnFen•6mo ago
The volume of movie theaters is not because they think people can't hear adequately if it were lower. It's for psychological/experiential reasons. The volume would not be different if there were closed captioning.
joezydeco•6mo ago
Given the trend of everyone putting text on every social media video and people leaving captions on streaming services all the time, perhaps it will just be a standard in another decade or two.
JohnFen•6mo ago
jasonthorsness•6mo ago
But maybe you could do something funky with parallax instead and have subtitle-seating and non-subtitle-seating, then nobody needs the glasses!
amichail•6mo ago
JohnFen•6mo ago
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JohnFen•6mo ago