Mostly they're on so if I miss something, I can glance down and catch it before it disappears, or rewind and figure out what the actor just mumbled.
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I had a free trial of apple tv and the only thing I liked was that if you rewinded it it would pop on the subtitles for that period of time and then turn them back off.
There wasn't enough programming I liked for me to keep the subscription after the free trial but I thought it was a nice touch.
This is exactly why I always have them running. My wife hates it. My proposed solution: give me a smaller screen near the TV that shows the subtitles. That's my $1 million idea of the year.
That idea has been used for a long time - in opera houses.
There's a Lemmy user I bet would like this.
Some movie theaters have something similar if you ask. Others just do subtitle screenings.
Love that at The Met.
That is super neat!
Always wondered what was done for deaf people at stage plays without sign language interpreters.
There is a subtitle viewer app that does this with your phone! I've never tried it though.
An actual real use for the Telly Tv, just gotta hack it to display the subs down there.
That's the one good thing about the ultra-wide mlvie format vs a normal screen. You get some space the movie never occupies.
In programs like Media Player Classic, you can easily shift the video up on the screen. Just push the movie up until it's touching the top edge, and suddenly there's a nice space for subtitles that don't overlap the movie!
The phone idea and other stuff people have mentioned already do sound pretty neat for 16x9 media though.
One feature I really like on Apple TV is if you hit the back button and go back 10 seconds, it will turn on subtitles for that 10 seconds. Unfortunately, Plex does not support that feature.
Yes! I think that's such a great little feature. It feels so rare that a streaming platform does something that benefits the user experience that this felt particularly great to see implemented.
Mostly they're on so if I miss something, I can glance down and catch it
Yeah, just like with tiddies.
Subtitties (I mean titles) are the solution to the "explosion loud; dialogue quiet" problem.
Not proper sound mixing?
That's gone with headphones somehow.
I had big stereo speakers and had this problem constantly and blame it on 5.1 sound on stereo setups.
[Loud Explosion Noises]
Yeah. I've been watching Attack on Titan. I realize the Japanese voice actors sound objectively more badass but there's so much action I need to be able to see what's going on so I watch the dubbed version. When things are slow sometimes I multitask.
Lol rookies. If you can't do both you haven't been reading fan made subs from early 2000s for anime.