TV music

[87bluejay]

Is it just me or is the background "music" on TV shows getting so loud you can barely hear the "talking"...?

 

[AngryRooster]

No, it's not just you. I've noticed several annoying things that I didn't notice years ago. Shows in syndication are sometimes sped up slightly so they can cram another commercial or two in. Shows on certain channels are stretched out for more commercials. Instead of a 30 minute show being in a 30 minute time slot it's put in a 36 minute slot. Closed captions that are wrong or altered from what is actually said. Captions of the lyrics of background music being plastered right along with the dialogue of an ongoing conversation. Blazing white full screen backgrounds in commercials that are so bright it's hard to look at the screen. The constant flickering, flashing and strobe effect in commercials and previews for shows. We are not cats, stop it.

 

[hoosierdoc]

I hate the music that plays. They don't seem to bother with words anymore, just music to fill plot gaps

 

[nipprdog]

That's why I quit watching Quantico after a few episodes.

 

[Kutnupe14]

So we're not talking about the electronic funk music from pornos?

 

[dvd1955]

I noticed this happening about ten years ago. Any chance you just turned 50!?!?

 

[jbombelli]

So this isn't about TV show theme music? I am disappoint.

 

[BGDave]

Is it just me or is the background "music" on TV shows getting so loud you can barely hear the "talking"...?

Music is the pits. Laugh track, now, that's the arm pits. Oh, yeah, the quick cuts are really artsy.

 

[CampingJosh]

I noticed it first in movies, beginning as far back as the Lord of the Rings series. Other movies quickly followed suit, and I can't usually watch movies without closed captioning anymore.

It's been drifting into TV ever since.

 

[looney2ns]

It's called old age hearing lose.

 

[CampingJosh]

It's called old age hearing lose.

No, it's not that.

The "background" music is now often just as loud or louder than the "foreground" spoken words.

And despite the change to the law, commercials are still louder than the programs.

 

[Cameramonkey]

Is it just me or is the background "music" on TV shows getting so loud you can barely hear the "talking"...?

it could be your tv improperly decoding the audio stream.

I had a surround sound system that as it was dying, it would only play certain 5.1 channels on certain DVDs. One example was music in the center channel @100% only and speech in right front only @25% (of normal setting). Some DVDs always did it, others it would start randomly during the show until you stopped and restarted it.

 

[indiucky]

So we're not talking about the electronic funk music from pornos?

[video=youtube;FGretcGCFRM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGretcGCFRM[/video]

 

[87bluejay]

[video=youtube;FGretcGCFRM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGretcGCFRM[/video]

Now that's funny!

 

[MrPeabody]

Huh? What???? Oh??? What???? Oh yea.....

 

[churchmouse]

No, it's not that.

The "background" music is now often just as loud or louder than the "foreground" spoken words.

And despite the change to the law, commercials are still louder than the programs.

They are setting the mood and replacing acting.