Subtitles.

Replying to Nanato3.

hulahoop

We can't get them on iPlayer ,some of the background is too loud which doesn't help.

I’ve found ways of getting some on iplayer, after thinking they weren’t available.

Barbadosbelle

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After contacting Viral Meningitis some 20-years ago I was left with just appx 50% of my hearing capacity and have worn hearing aids since.

They're great but I still always use sub-titles as loud background music can often make the dialogue difficult to hear. Ditto the non-theatre trained actors who mumble.

An extra annoyance and my main comment here is when I record a film only to find, when I watch, that there's an annoying little man or woman on the bottom right of the screen doing sign language.

It is so distracting, and as far as I can work out, totally unnecessary. It happened recently when I settled down to watch the wonderful film 'Can You Ever Forgive Me'.

Surely anyone who can't hear would just put up the subs? It baffles me.
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I love that film. I must rewatch it! I watched a film on dvd the other day thinking it didn’t have subtitles only to have to rewatch it when I found them on extras.

I always have sub titles on, I guess I do have a little hearing loss but find most problems are with the actors mumbling. When you watch old films the actors seem to enunciate more.

hulahoop

We can't get them on iPlayer ,some of the background is too loud which doesn't help.

We can access subtitles on iplayer and use them all the time apart from the news. Have a good look. We can even alter the size.

I found them by going to Cc which I didn't realise was subtitles.

loopyloo

I found them by going to Cc which I didn't realise was subtitles.

What is Cc and how do I find it?

Musicgirl

You are very lucky to not have a need for them.

I'm not lucky at all . I'm just glad some part of me still works
after being housebound and disabled.

I think the sign language is for people who were born Deaf & have always signed & therefore BSL is their first language. It's difficult to become a fluent reader when you can't first learn the spoken language, & following subtitles does demand a certain reading speed.

My son, with perfectly good hearing, always has subtitles on for films he is watching.
The breakdown of the repertory system has brought about ‘natural’ acting without projection. I’m watching “The Cedar Tree” series from the 70s and all the actors speak very clearly, same with old films.
I haven’t been pleased recently, to rent a film on Amazon and find it comes without subtitles. They’ve got a cheek!

The subtitles on YouTube are often gobbledegook🙄

100% subtitles all the time. Perfect hearing.have a deaf work place so happy with subtitles. Very useful in my rubbish tv like MAFS or RHOC where they argue and talk over each other.

hollysteers

My son, with perfectly good hearing, always has subtitles on for films he is watching.
The breakdown of the repertory system has brought about ‘natural’ acting without projection. I’m watching “The Cedar Tree” series from the 70s and all the actors speak very clearly, same with old films.
I haven’t been pleased recently, to rent a film on Amazon and find it comes without subtitles. They’ve got a cheek!

The subtitles on YouTube are often gobbledegook🙄

I loved The Cedar Tree, used to watch it with a little DGS.

It's not us, it's them. They don't articulate clearly.

Subtitles are available on iPlayer.
We turn them on to watch This City Is Ours, otherwise we would hardly understand a word of the Scouse accents.

We always have them on. The sound isn’t brilliant on so many programmes and especially in dramas where sometimes subtitles reveal words that can’t possibly be heard. Agree that background music/noise is really annoying. Also dramas that can hardly be seen as set in the dark.seems to be more common these days. We have Prime Amazon and so many decent films have no subtitles so can’t be bothered to struggle with the dialogue. Of course there are other channels that also don’t have subtitles apparently due to the cost.

We always have subtitles on. Love them. However after a few years of this I now can not watch anything without subtitles

Lovecatssomuch

100% subtitles all the time. Perfect hearing.have a deaf work place so happy with subtitles. Very useful in my rubbish tv like MAFS or RHOC where they argue and talk over each other.

I'm watching the new series of MAFSA and when one of the husbands speaks, they put subtitles on for him . I'm glad they do because he just mumbles.

It's not volume but accents and clear speech for me. I also get really annoyed by continual background "music" telling me "how to feel".

I have the subtitles on all the time. I simply can't hear what's being said without them - I have some hearing loss (not enough to need hearing aids) and Tinnitus.

Yes, I have subtitles on, helps when actors mumble or the sound quality is poor. Also I'm not good with strong accents !! Yes, I do wear hearing aids and husband .

Started watching the excellent A Thousand Blows last night. As the family are staying I’ve turned the subtitles off and I really couldn’t understand what they were saying most of the time.

I remember a lot of letters in the Radio Times complaining about the speech in BBC drama being more or less inaudible, because the actors weren't speaking clearly. In a lot of drama productions, they seem to talk at the same level you'd talk to someone in the same room, or the same corner of the same room.
We watched all 6 episodes of 'new ' nand the review that referred to Jim as 'the whispering widower' summed it up perfectly! Even if your voice is being amplified electronically , you do need to speak clearly and enunciate! I remember my mother complaining that 'Oh, your dad mutters all the time nowadays, I can't hear a word he says!' but since retirement loomed, my husband has started muttering as well! It's as if his voice has retired in anticipation of him finishing work lecturing and giving talks in a few years!

It wasn’t a production fault with A Thousand Blows. Purely down to the deterioration in my hearing.

@MayBee70 would our family object to subtitles?
I find my sons use them routinely even though they have perfect hearing. It's a genZ thing.

Crossstitchfan

loopyloo

I found them by going to Cc which I didn't realise was subtitles.

What is Cc and how do I find it?

I would have appreciated a reply to my question. Guess you were too busy.

RedRidingHood

@MayBee70 would our family object to subtitles?
I find my sons use them routinely even though they have perfect hearing. It's a genZ thing.

We did actually watch A Thousand Blows with subtitles tonight and nobody minded. I think they prefer it to me having to have the sound on the tv unbearably high. We did watch Paddington Three without them, though!