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I used to, then I had a child.

Nature.... ummm... finds a way.

Whoaaa, mama!

This happened when I decided to practice language by using the audio/subtitle options on Netflix. I ended up getting annoyed by the Spanish subtitles and spoken Spanish being different, and I couldn't do both simultaneously.

Btw, some of the puns on Spanish-language Bojack Horseman are even better than the originals. The translation team must have been masters to be that on-point, consistently, throughout a show that practically breathes puns. (Well, puns and tragedy.)

Had this happen recently with Death Note. I kept seeing memes about the fuckin show so I watched a synopsis of it. I thought "Well that ending is stupid. I'll never watch it."

5 hours later I found myself on the third episode like "Huh?"

But I digress. I turned on the subtitles and was driven batshit insane. Wasn't worth the effort of trying to find ones that matched. Everything was the same gist but the wrong wording and I was losing my mind.

Even worse, you've got 2 autistic children that lose their minds every time the subtitles don't match or are poorly translated or whatever, and loudly exclaim over the next 10-15 seconds of the show (unless interrupted by another poorly matching subtitle).

Unless you have dubtitles

I was watching The Ritual and I had trouble understanding the characters because they talk so quietly and their accents didn't help.

I (American) need subtitles to understand American shows.

It's an audio processing disorder thing that some have (myself included). Once you get used to subtitles, you kinda don't focus on them unless you weren't sure exactly what they said. Which is often for me. They just kinda become a part of the audio... unless there's a delay, then they're distracting to me and I'll just blast the sound or watch something else

Part of it for me is cuz i am a slow reader and i have rewind the video to read it again

I used to be the same as you. I guess having kids kind of forced me to start using them. It took practice to learn not to focus completely on the subtitles.

We are the same. I compulsively read any text on screen, and miss key visual details because of it. I only want subtitles on non-english speech and Christopher Nolan films

I can see that you don't have hearing damage. Cause I definitely do and can't hear shit out of one of my ears anymore. With subtitles on I can actually hear what I'm watching better.

Agreed, the only time I'd want subtitles are translations. And even then it's not optimal

I haven't worked in the field, but oh boy do I ever notice it. Is it the player? The display? The receiver? I don't know, and I will fuck with it until it's tolerable... and then something drifts and I'm clawing at the walls again. Yes, something in my setup sucks, but the gear is all from ~2017 and I'm broke. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

My Xbox is connected to the 1080p/low latency HDMI port on my display, with the audio going over optical directly to my receiver, stereo only, foregoing 4K and surround sound for the express purpose of playing Rock Band with as little latency as possible. The two types of guitar and the drum set have slightly different optimal calibration settings in the game. The whole reason I bought a 360 over a PS3 back in the day was that the guitars were still wired, and trying to calibrate while playing on my friend's PS3 was next to impossible and spawned a lot of arguments.

Today, that same friend contentedly watches content 1/4-1/2 second out of sync. And his wife prefers watching everything with subtitles. So I have to actively ignore both distractions and pretend everything's fine to be a good friend. 🫠

I'm pretty sure poor sound balance in modern media is mandatory.