Subtitles.

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.

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.

Replying to Nanato3.

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

Generally, foreign-language films that make it into the anglosphere are the best ones produced by their respective countries and well worth watching.
I do find some modern American films hard to understand even with my hearing aids and often resort to subtitles.

I can't stand subtitles, I don't think I know how to put them on

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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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We watch a lot of Scandi thrillers, so Norwegien, Swedish , Finnish? are the languages that the drama was recorded in so subtitles are essential.
I now encourage my OH to have subtitles on most of the time even in English spoken programmes because despite his hearing aids he is still a bit deafer in one ear.
I agree about the mumbling -it happens all the time. Although I can normally hear perfectly well , sometimes I'm glad to have the subtitles myself.

Me too. Like the subtitle s on but can’t stand foreign films. DH is American & has a hard time with some of the accents

hulahoop

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

Hi - I can get them on I player watching the stuff I do so clearly some programmes, I haven't tested a whole range. Its in the settings bottom right of the screen

I read somewhere that watching tv with subtitles on is very good for the brain! I always have subtitles on (if available) even though I can hear perfectly well, pleased to think it might be doing me some good 😊

Athrawes

I'm finding that many actors don't speak as clearly these days so I revert to subtitles. I was taught to speak clearly and project my voice to the back of the room - without shouting. It seems this method is not as popular as it once was.

They gabble.

Obviously not theatre trained!

Using subtitles more and more, also rewinding for a second attempt at hearing if no text available.

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

I always have subtitles on these days. I do struggle finding them on some channels, though and often find them by chance.

I like using subtitles when they are available as it means that I can watch a programme at a volume that is not deafening to everyone else. Sady, a lot of the catch up channels and YouTube do not have them and, as I am unable to wear my hearing aids at the moment because of a medical problem, I need the volume at anywhere between 60-90 in order to hear with any clarity. It's just as well we live in a detached house!

Quite often if there is music it tells you who it is by as well.

I'm finding that many actors don't speak as clearly these days so I revert to subtitles. I was taught to speak clearly and project my voice to the back of the room - without shouting. It seems this method is not as popular as it once was.

Aldom, like you I like watching foreign programmes with subtitles, but have a quiet giggle at myself when I have to have the sound turned up because I can’t hear even though I have no clue what they are saying.

I wish all channels and programmes had subtitles and I use them whenever I can.
Not just foreign films but for Liverpool accents, Brummie, and Scottish or Irish.
Strangely not for Welsh accents.🤔

I can hearn tv with my hearing aids in - but much more enjoy programmes when I also have sub titles on.
Except for BBC news magazine first thing in the morning, I rarely watch live tv, prefer going into streamed programmes, so I watch what I want to watch, when I want to watch it#
Many of these programmes are on U - and each time I go into that I have to click on Subtitles ON. On iplayer, and other streaming services, they 'remember# that I have sub-titles, but not U.

Sometimes I can't get sub titles either.
Glad it's not just me ....

We went to the theatre in London and there were subtitles- sort of. I thought it would be intrusive but there were screens both sides of the stage and I was really pleased that I was able to read them.

Not sure of the specific channel but I have had sometimes when I can’t get subs and it disappoints me I seem to enjoy particularly dramas much more with the duel vision and reading which my poor old eyes manage to do at the same time quite easily

I like subtitles.

Have noticed just lately I can’t always get them on certain channel 5 programmes, has anyone else noticed this?