[OT] [I mean totally OT] Re: What can you "new"

[Christopher Wright]

Georg Wrede wrote:
> Walter Bright wrote:
>> Sean Kelly wrote:
>>> The problem I ran into is that the audio is mixed with the music 
>>> about the same volume as the voices, and it almost seems like they 
>>> applied so effects to the voice audio to make it sound more like they 
>>> were talking in a big metal room.  In any case, I always had trouble 
>>> hearing dialog clearly in that show, and often messed with the audio 
>>> settings on my TV to boost that frequency range in hopes of hearing 
>>> it better.  That's what I get for not wearing ear plugs all those 
>>> years I spent at loud concerts, I suppose.
>>
>> I've been having increasing problems understanding TV dialog, too. It 
>> sounds like they're mumbling their lines.
> 
> It's a conspiracy. You need to turn the volume up to understand, and 
> meanwhile the entire house hears the bangs and shots, and everybody has 
> to come and see. Same with commercials (at least around here) they got 
> the nice idea to send commercials a lot louder than the program, so 
> everybody in the building (including your freaking neighbors) has to 
> hear what detergent to buy. #@%!@#!!! I'd say that's harrassment and 
> trespassing.

It was quite annoying, but I found a solution: don't watch broadcast 
television. There are friendly people on the internet who have already 
removed the commercials for me.

That said, the only television I regularly watch is Korean starcraft 
(with fan-made English commentary, usually), and nobody's going to sue 
me for that.