[BC] Re: Loud movies (was: Digital Intgerference)

[Milton R. Holladay Jr.]

Technically known as "masking effect"
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From: "Barry Mishkind" <barry at oldradio.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2005 3:58 PM
Subject: Re: [BC] Re: Loud movies (was: Digital Intgerference)


> Jim,
>
> You hit the nail on the head with that one!  It is amazing to me how
> much of the dialog in recent movies is "covered" by the "swelling
> sounds" ... and lost to mumblers....
>
> At 12:37 PM 12/21/05, Jim Wood, C.P.E.W. wrote
> >With regard to film sound, seems to me it's gone downhill over the
> >years, as experienced both in theater presentations and with DVD
> >rentals.  Oh, sure, I'm getting old(er), but watching any film made
> >before, say, the '70s, every word of dialog is still crystal
> >clear.  Take a contemporary film, and my wife (who is younger!) and
> >I both comment, "what did he say?", sometimes backing up the DVD a
> >couple of times, or even turning on the Closed (Eh, what's that,
> >sonny?) Captioning.  Dialog/music/effects ratios don't seem right,
> >and diction doesn't seem as important as it once was in film making.
>
>
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