TV Sound Tracks

[vic mcclymont]

On another thread some one mentioned the poor sound track on the latest BBC programme VIGIL.
I find that most of the modern TV programmes have poor quality sound and very load music.
I like watching Law and Order, but right at the end the music reaches as a crescendo as the final some of the case is made and you cannot hear what is said.
I watch Talking Pictures TV, the station which shows golden oldies, I don't have to ramp up the sound to hear what is being said, the sound track is a gentle backing.
The big difference between then and now is the clarity of sound, anyone else notice this?
Vic

[Ivan Cloherty]

It's because the actors mumble Vic, they have lost the art of diction and pronunciation and tend to speak with their mouths closed, but why on earth nearly every programme now has background music gawd only knows, seems to be the latest 'in thing' as programmes previously aired without it, now are contaminated with it to the detriment of the programme, fiction or documentary

[Denis O'Shea]

Marian I was only allowed the remote since my Val got the dreaded dementia goes back to my seafaring days coming on leave and dared not attempt to change a programme we have been watching for the last six months you have been away. so reverted to married mans best answer YES DEAR. Rgds Den[/I]

[Keith Tindell]

How much trouble have those words, Yes Dear, got us out of trouble for years !!!, kt

[Doc Vernon]

On another thread some one mentioned the poor sound track on the latest BBC programme VIGIL.

The big difference between then and now is the clarity of sound, anyone else notice this?
Vic

I just saw on our TV last Night that the Program VIGIL is about to Screen here as well. Free Streaming i believe ??
Will wait and see
Cheers

[happy daze john in oz]

Same problem here in Oz.
But the worst are the overseas ones. They have to be converted to out system which is fine for the pictures but the sound is not converted.
Background music often overtakes the sound track but this I think is because the dialogue is so poor.
Agree about the mumbling as well, happens in so many now.

[Keith at Tregenna]

Lewis, someone mentioned subtitles, had not thought of that.

K.

[Louis the fly]

The sub titles are not in Welsh or Geordie.

[j.sabourn]

#1 As regards Sonar Operators at one time and probably still are , they were the best hearing matelots available. Every healthy child when first born has perfect hearing , this starts to deteriorate on hearing his first sounds. Depending on his loss of hearing depended his ability as a Sonar Operator. No doubt he was strictly examined for hearing before being accepted into that branch of the Navy and this would not be job and finish it would be a regulator occurrence .Cheers JS

[Louis the fly]

Before I joined a Mobil tanker I had to go to their London office for a medical. For the hearing test I was put in a cubicle the size of a telephone box. I was given two buttons two press, one for the left hand and one for the right also ear phones. The cubicle was in complete darkness. The operator said to press the left button when I heard a sound in left ear, then press the right button when the sound stopped.
Not knowing what sound to expect made the test harder because I didn't know if I was hearing a sound or just imagining it.
Must have passed, joined the tanker a few days later.