Turning On Closed-Captioning on TV/Movies

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i tried the compansion route, only to find that it boosted the background noise so high so as to drown out what i was trying to hear in the actor's voice, more often than not. as for treble enhancement, i might drag out my aphex aural exciter and see what it can do- this would be a form of treble-only compansion that would steer around the background rumble, boosting only the voice. thanks for the helpful hints.



subtitles definitely help unless the subtitle operator gets certain words wrong which totally messes up the dialogue. as an example, there is an operating room scene in the movie "bullitt" in which the surgeon orders a pair of metzenbaum scissors from the scrub nurse, only the subtitle read "get some balm" instead. staring at the screen is akin to paying attention to the movie, so for me the subtitles make me pay more attention to what is being shown on the screen, including reading the lips of the actors in foreign flicks, to check for differences in translation between the original dialogue/dub versus the subtitle, which can be enlightening.

yes, i use captions on movies all the time and rarely on tv shows.

I use to turn on the TV closed captioning actually when I was very little. I don't actually do that anymore.

watching the SOTU a few nights ago, i had to turn on the closed captioning in order to hear the speech above the din of the noisy crowd in the tavern i was in. i have no flippin' idea why i went there to watch the speech in the first place.

I remember watching Fresh Prince of Belaire during Deaf Awareness Week, one time. I found it easier to follow than without the CC.

Closed captioning distracts me. I only turn it on when I can't follow the characters' conversations well enough for whatever reason. Subtitles are not as distracting, presumably because I need them to figure out what anyone is saying.

Yes. I often turn on subtitles on films and always on videogames.