Closed captioning has only risen in popularity in the past few years. What caused that?
  • PixelPassport@lemm.eeEnglish
    29·
    1 year ago

    I always use them, otherwise I have to hold the remote the whole time and keep changing the volume. Watching Silo right now and there’s so many whispering scenes I’d never be able to make out.

    • Frater Mus@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      On 24 Kiefer used to alternate between talking and whispering multiple times in the same sentence. Made me effing crazy.

    • nutomic@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      And a few minutes after dead silent dialog, movies start blasting explosions and gunshots loud enough to wake up the whole neighborhood.

    • Freeman@lemmy.pubEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I started watching with my noise canceling AirPods through the roku app. Or just turning on subtitles.