I grew up reading alot because we didn’t have internet in the house. My parents STILL dont have internet. To each their own I guess.

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    7 months ago

    The main issue is that most people are trying to play a film mixed for 6 or more speakers on two speakers. Not the movie makers’ faults. This is why DVDs/Blu-rays and streaming platforms often offer multiple audio mixes.

    If you don’t have a surround sound system, you should switch the audio to the 2.0 (Stereo) mix, which was actually meant for TV speakers. The surround sound stream is almost always the default, and will often sound terrible when squashed down to two speakers because it wasn’t meant to be heard on two speakers.

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      Not the movie makers’ faults

      It’s absolutely the fault of the people who mix the audio. You don’t just mix for the theaters and call that good enough.

      Most people aren’t using BluRay/DVD for media anymore, it’s streaming, which often does not come with multiple sound mix options. Quite often even if it does the “stereo mix” is a down mixed 5.1 or 7.1 mix, meaning it’s shit. Even if they ARE using Blu Ray, one shouldn’t need to change the audio from a higher quality mix to stereo, it should default to the one that’s actually used by most people.

      It most certainly isn’t the fault of the average end user for using what is most common, as your comment inplies

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        But like I said, they already did mix the audio for 2 speakers; it’s usually labeled as “2.0 (Stereo)”. You just have to select it with your remote. Again, like I said, surround sound is the default on most streaming platforms.

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      Yeah, for a lot of movies. But I have a pretty good 5.1 setup, and with plenty of movies I still need the subtitles to understand what they’re saying. Nolan’s movies come to mind, but they’re not alone.